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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393408" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Invincible Armada</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She comes, she comes--the burden of the deeps!<br> Beneath her wails the universal sea!<br>With clanking chains and a new god, she sweeps,<br> And with a thousand thunders, unto thee!<br>The ocean-castles and the floating hosts--<br> Ne'er on their like looked the wild water!--Well<br> May man the monster name &quot;Invincible.&quot;<br>O'er shuddering waves she gathers to thy coasts!<br> The horror that she spreads can claim<br> Just title to her haughty name.<br>The trembling Neptune quails<br> Under the silent and majestic forms;<br>The doom of worlds in those dark sails;--<br> Near and more near they sweep! and slumber all the storms!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Before thee, the array,<br>Blest island, empress of the sea!<br>The sea-born squadrons threaten thee,<br> And thy great heart, Britannia!<br>Woe to thy people, of their freedom proud--<br>She rests, a thunder heavy in its cloud!<br>Who, to thy hand the orb and sceptre gave,<br> That thou should'st be the sovereign of the nations?<br>To tyrant kings thou wert thyself the slave,<br> Till freedom dug from law its deep foundations;<br>The mighty Chart the citizens made kings,<br> And kings to citizens sublimely bowed!<br> And thou thyself, upon thy realm of water,<br> Hast thou not rendered millions up to slaughter,<br>When thy ships brought upon their sailing wings<br> The sceptre--and the shroud?<br>What should'st thou thank?--Blush, earth, to hear and feel<br>What should'st thou thank?--Thy genius and thy steel!<br>Behold the hidden and the giant fires!<br> Behold thy glory trembling to its fall!<br> Thy coming doom the round earth shall appal,<br>And all the hearts of freemen beat for thee,<br>And all free souls their fate in thine foresee--<br> Theirs is thy glory's fall!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One look below the Almighty gave,<br> Where streamed the lion-flags of thy proud foe;<br>And near and wider yawned the horrent grave.<br> &quot;And who,&quot; saith He, &quot;shall lay mine England low--<br>The stem that blooms with hero-deeds--<br>The rock when man from wrong a refuge needs--<br> The stronghold where the tyrant comes in vain?<br> Who shall bid England vanish from the main?<br>Ne'er be this only Eden freedom knew,<br> Man's stout defence from power, to fate consigned.&quot;<br>God the Almighty blew,<br> And the Armada went to every wind!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Friedrich+Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a><div class=q>
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 Beneath her wails the universal sea!
With clanking chains and a new god, she sweeps,
 And with a thousand thunders, unto thee!
The ocean-castles and the floating hosts--
 Ne'er on their like looked t..."></div>
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