<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341403" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Inflexible As Fate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When for one brief dark hour Rome's virile sway<br>Felt the sharp shock of Cannae's adverse day,<br>Forum, and field, and Senate-House were rent<br>With cries of nor misgiving nor lament,<br>Only of men contending now who should<br>Purchase the spot on which the Victor stood.<br>Legion on legion sprang up from the ground,<br>Gleamed through the land, and over ocean wound,<br>Till Scipio's eagles swarmed on Afric's shore,<br>And Carthage perished, to insult no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not less resolved than Rome, now England stands<br>Facing foul fortune with unfaltering hands.<br>Throughout her Realms is neither fear nor feud,<br>But, calm in strength and steeled in fortitude,<br>She fills the gaps of death with eager life,<br>That will nor lag nor haggle in the strife,<br>Till, having backward rolled the lawless tide<br>Of crafty treason, tyranny, and pride,<br>Her Sword hath brought, inflexible as Fate,<br>Charter of Freedom to a fettered State.</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=341403" data-title="Inflexible As Fate de Alfred Austin" data-description="When for one brief dark hour Rome's virile sway Felt the sharp shock of Cannae's adverse day, Forum, and field, and Senate-House were rent With cries of nor misgiving nor lament, Only of men contending now who should Purchase the spot on which the..."></div> </div> </div>

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