<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354863" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John Heki</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should Switzerland’s rude rocks be held the throne <br> Of freedom (sanctioned there by God to quell <br>All proud invaders, Gessler-like o’erthrown!) <br> Because the echoes in their caves that dwell <br> Once leaped exultant at the shout of Tell? <br>And thine, New Zealand, yet be left unknown <br>To glory, now that thy dark chief hath sown <br> Broad over them a like memorial spell? <br>Should Wallace be a word time ne’er may lose? <br> And Hofer (he who for his mountains died <br>Rather than see the spoiler there abuse <br> Freedom’s rock-alter!) Be a sound of pride <br> Yet Heki’s name remain unglorified <br>In the grand lore of the heroic muse </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Harpur">Charles Harpur</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=354863" data-title="John Heki de Charles Harpur" data-description="Should Switzerland’s rude rocks be held the throne Of freedom (sanctioned there by God to quell All proud invaders, Gessler-like o’erthrown!) Because the echoes in their caves that dwell Once leaped exultant at the shout of Tell? And t..."></div> </div> </div>

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