<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117658" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>France</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because for once the sword broke in her hand,<br>The words she spoke seemed perished for a space;<br>All wrong was brazen, and in every land<br>The tyrants walked abroad with naked face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The waters turned to blood, as rose the Star<br>Of evil fate denying all release.<br>The rulers smote, the feeble crying "War!"<br>The usurers robbed, the naked crying "Peace!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And her own feet were caught in nets of gold,<br>And her own soul profaned by sects that squirm,<br>And little men climbed her high seats and sold<br>Her honour to the vulture and the worm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she seemed broken and they thought her dead,<br>The Over-Men, so brave against the weak.<br>Has your last word of sophistry been said,<br>O cult of slaves? Then it is hers to speak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Clear the slow mists from her half-darkened eyes,<br>As slow mists parted over Valmy fell,<br>And once again her hands in high surprise<br>Take hold upon the battlements of Hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cecil+Edward+Chesterton">Cecil Edward Chesterton</a> from <i>Poems of the Great War</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117658" data-title="France de Cecil Edward Chesterton" data-description="Because for once the sword broke in her hand,/The words she spoke seemed perished for a space;/All wrong was brazen, and in every land/The tyrants walked abroad with naked face./The waters turned to blood, as rose the Star/Of evil fate denying all..."></div> </div> </div>

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