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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407940" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to Peace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She comes, benign enchantress, heav'n born PEACE!<br>With mercy beaming in her radiant eye;<br>She bids the horrid din of battle cease,<br>And at her glance the savage passions die.<br>'Tis Nature's festival, let earth rejoice,<br>And pour to Liberty exulting songs,<br>In distant regions, with according voice,<br>Let Man the vict'ry bless, its prize to Man belongs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Resistless Freedom! when she nerves the arm,<br>No vulgar triumph crowns the hero's might;<br>She, she alone can spread a moral charm<br>O'er war's fell deeds, and sanctify the fight.<br>O, GALLIA ! in this bright immortal hour,<br>How proud a trophy binds thy laurel'd brow!<br>Republic, hail! whose independent power<br>All earth contested once, all earth confesses now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Protecting spirits of the glorious dead!<br>Ah, not in vain the hero's noble toil,<br>Ah, not in vain the patriot's blood is shed,<br>That blood shall consecrate his native soil.<br>Illustrious names! to hist'ry's record dear,<br>And breath'd when some high impulse fires the bard,<br>For you shall virtue pour the glowing tear,<br>And your remember'd deeds shall still your country guard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thou, lov'd BRITAIN , my parental Isle!<br>Secure, encircled by thy subject waves,<br>Thou, land august, where Freedom rear'd her pile,<br>While gothic night obscur'd a world of slaves;<br>Thy genius, that indignant heard the shock<br>Of frantic combat, strife unmeet for thee,<br>Now views triumphant, from his sea-girt rock,<br>Thee unsubdued alone, for thou alone wert free!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, happy thy misguided efforts fail'd,<br>My Country! when with tyrant-hosts combin'd--<br>O, hideous conquest, had thy sword prevail'd,<br>And crown'd the impious league against mankind!<br>Thou nurse of great design, of lofty thought,<br>What homicide, had thy insensate rage<br>Effac'd the sacred lesson thou hast taught,<br>And with thy purest blood inscrib'd on glory's page.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, rather haste to Concord's holy shrine,<br>Ye rival nations, haste with joy elate;<br>Your blending garlands round her altar twine,<br>And bind the wounds of no immortal hate:<br>Go--breathe responsive rituals o'er the sod<br>Where Freedom martyrs press an early grave;<br>Go--vow that never shall their turf be trod<br>By the polluting step of tyrant or of slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VII. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And from your shores the abject vices chase,<br>That low Ambition generous souls disdain,<br>Corruption blasting every moral grace,<br>Servility that kneels to bless his chain;<br>O, Liberty, those demons far remove,<br>Come, nymph severely good, sublimely great!<br>Nor to the raptur'd hope of mortals prove<br>Like those illusive dreams that pass the iv'ry gate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VII. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">New Age! that roll'st o'er man thy dawning year,<br>Ah, sure all happy omens hail thy birth,<br>Sure whiter annals in thy train appear,<br>And purer glory cheers the gladden'd earth:<br>Like the young eagle, when his stedfast glance<br>Meets the full sun-beam in his upward flight,<br>So thou shalt with majestic step advance,<br>And fix thy dauntless eye on Liberty and Light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Helen+Maria+Williams">Helen Maria Williams</a><div class=q>
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She comes, benign enchantress, heav'n born PEACE!
With mercy beaming in her radiant eye;
She bids the horrid din of battle cease,
And at her glance the savage passions die.
'Tis Nature's festival, let earth rejoice,
And pour to Liberty exulti..."></div>
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