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CROMWELL Act III sc iv	A
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Stay I no longer can contain myself	A
But cry you Look on John who bares his mind	B
To Oliver to Cromwell Milton speaks	C
Despite a kindling eye and marvel deep	D
A voice is lifted up without your leave	A
For I was never placed at council board	E
To speak my promptings When awed strangers come	F
Who've seen Fox Mazarin wince at the stings	G
In my epistles and bring admiring votes	H
Of learned colleges they strain to see	I
My figure in the glare the usher utters	J
'Behold and hearken that's my Lord Protector's	J
Cousin that his son in law that next' who cares	J
Some perfumed puppet 'Milton ' 'He in black	K
Yon silent scribe who trims their eloquence '	-
Still 'chronicling small beer ' such is my duty	I
Yea one whose thunder roared through martyr bones	J
Till Pope and Louis Grand quaked on their thrones	J
And echoed 'Vengeance for the Vaudois ' where	L
The Sultan slumbers sick with scent of roses	J
He is but the mute in this seraglio	M
'Pure' Cromwell's Council	M
But to be dumb and blind is overmuch	N
Impatient Issachar kicks at the load	O
Yet diadems are burdens painfuller	L
And I would spare thee that sore imposition	P
Dear brother Noll I plead against thyself	A
Thou aim'st to be a king and in thine heart	Q
What fool has said 'There is no king but thou '	-
For thee the multitude waged war and won	P
The end thou art of wrestlings and of prayer	L
Of sleepless watch long marches hunger tears	J
And blood prolifically spilled homes lordless	J
And homeless lords The mass must always suffer	L
That one should reign the collar's but newly clamp'd	R
And nothing but the name thereon is changed	S
Master still masters mark you not the red	T
Of shame unutterable in my sightless white	U
Still hear me Cromwell speaking for your sake	V
These fifteen years we to you whole devoted	W
Have sought for Liberty to give it thee	I
To make our interests your huckster gains	J
The king a lion slain that you may flay	M
And wear the robe well worthily I say't	I
For I will not abase my brother	L
No I would keep him in the realm serene	X
My own ideal of heroes loved o'er Israel	M
And higher placed by me than all the others	J
And such for tinkling titles hollow haloes	J
Like that around yon painted brow thou thou	Y
Apostle hero saint dishonor thyself	A
And snip and trim the flag of Naseby field	Z
As scarf on which the maid of honor's dog	A2
Will yelp some summer afternoon That sword	E
Shrink into a sceptre brilliant bauble Thou	Y
Thrown on a lonely rock in storm of state	B2
Brain turned by safety's miracle thou risest	B2
Upon the tott'ring stone whilst ocean ebbs	J
And reeking of no storms to come to morrow	L
Or to morrow deem that a certain pedestal	M
Whereon thou'lt be adored for e'er e'en while	M
It shakes o'ersets the rider Tremble thou	Y
For he who dazzles makes men Samson blind	B2
Will see the pillars of his palace kiss	J
E'en at the whelming ruin Then what word	B2
Of answer from your wreck when I demand	B2
Account of Cromwell glory of the people	M
Smothered in ashes through the dust thou'lt hear	L
'What didst thou with thy virtue ' Will it respond	B2
'When battered helm is doffed how soft is purple	M
On which to lay the head lulled by the praise	J
Of thousand fluttering fans of flatterers	J
Wearied of war horse gratefully one glides	J
In gilded barge or in crowned velvet car	L
From gay Whitehall to gloomy Temple Bar '	-
Where had you slipt that head were bleaching now	Y
And that same rabble splitting for a hedge	C2
Had joined their rows to cheer the active headsman	P
Perchance in mockery they'd gird the skull	M
With a hop leaf crown Bitter the brewing Noll	M
Are crowns the end all of ambition Remember	L
Charles Stuart and that they who make can break	V
This same Whitehall may black its front with crape	D
And this broad window be the portal twice	J
To lead upon a scaffold Frown or laugh	A
Laugh on as they did at Cassandra's speech	N
But mark the prophetess was right Still laugh	A
Like the credulous Ethiop in his faith in stars	J
But give one thought to Stuart two for yourself	A
In his appointed hour all was forthcoming	D2
Judge axe and deathsman veiled and my poor eyes	J
Descry as would thou saw'st a figure veiled	B2
Uplooming there afar like sunrise coming	D2
With blade that ne'er spared Judas 'midst free brethren	P
Stretch not the hand of Cromwell for the prize	J
Meant not for him nor his Thou growest old	B2
The people are ever young Like her i' the chase	J
Who drave a dart into her lover embowered	B2
Piercing the incense clouds the popular shaft	B2
May slay thee in a random shot at Tyranny	I
Man friend remain a Cromwell in thy name	E2
Rule and if thy son be worthy he and his	J
So rule the rest for ages be it grander thus	J
To be a Cromwell than a Carolus	J
No lapdog combed by wantons but the watch	N
Upon the freedom that we won Dismiss	J
Your flatterers let no harpings no gay songs	J
Prevent your calm dictation of good laws	J
To guard to fortify and keep enlinked	B2
England and Freedom Be thine old self alone	F2
And make above all else accorded me	I
My most desired claim on all posterity	I
That thou in Milton's verse wert foremost of the free	I

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