<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341338" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Aspromonte</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So you think he is defeated, O ye comfortably seated,<br>And that Victory is meted in your loaded huckster's scales?<br>O ye fools! though justice tarry, yet by heaven broad and starry,<br>Right, howe'er it may miscarry, ere the end arrive, prevails.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you think a wounded hero may hereafter count as zero,<br>And that every desperate Nero rules the cities which he burns;<br>That a wild steed caught and snaffled means a nation wholly baffled,<br>And its future may be raffled in your diplomatic urns!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, then, know we would not barter this our never flinching martyr<br>For the very largest charter we could coax from ``Right Divine,''<br>That his blood upon your ermine only makes us more determine<br>To exterminate the vermin who have baulked his grand design.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dolts! upon successful traitor vengeance groweth only greater,<br>Not one whit less sure, the later the account may be delayed,<br>And will one day have its grip on every decorated fripon,<br>Though he loudly laugh and lip on, whilst the world is plunged in shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I pray ye, O ye people! trust in palace nor in steeple!<br>If you sow ill you will reap ill, to your misery and scorn;<br>In your generation wiser, know that vows of priest and kaiser<br>Only supple cheats and lies are, to be broken swift as sworn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But have faith that Time the Scourger will be even with the perjure,<br>When shall greener be the verdure upon Aspromonte's slope,<br>When the populations fitted to be wholly manumitted,<br>Shall be trampled nor outwitted, or by Emperor or Pope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And no longer forced to tremble, or whilst cursing to dissemble,<br>Shall free Italy assemble, 'neath a new and grander dome;<br>Grander far than that of Peter, wherein Liberty shall seat her,<br>By his martyrdom completer who first struck for ``Death or Rome!''</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</a><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=341338" data-title="Aspromonte de Alfred Austin" data-description="So you think he is defeated, O ye comfortably seated, And that Victory is meted in your loaded huckster's scales? O ye fools! though justice tarry, yet by heaven broad and starry, Right, howe'er it may miscarry, ere the end arrive, prevails. And ..."></div> </div> </div>

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