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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408898" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rebel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Call me traitor to my country and a rebel to my God.<br>And the foe of “law and order”, well deserving of the rod,<br>But I scorn the biassed sentence from the temples of the creed<br>That was fouled and mutilated by the ministers of greed,<br>For the strength that I inherit is the strength of Truth and Right;<br>Lords of earth! I am immortal in the battles cf the night!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My religion is the oldest; it was born upon the earth<br>When to curse mankind for ages pride and tyranny had birth.<br>’Tis the offspring of oppression, born to suffering and strife,<br>Born to hate, above all other hate, the things that gave it life;<br>And ’twill live through all the ages, while a son of man is blind,<br>In the everlasting rhythm of the story of mankind!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the Maker’s battered image, where the bloody helmet gleams,<br>From the graves of beaten armies rise the heroes of my dreams.<br>I am ever with the weaker in the battles for the right.<br>And I fight on vessels sinking ’neath the cruel blows of might;<br>But I hear of coming triumph in the tramp of flying feet<br>And the wild, despairing music of the army in retreat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am plunged in bitter sorrow at the sinking of a star,<br>For I mourn among the murdered where the broken lances are;<br>Souls of earth who rule with iron, raining death on farm and town,<br>Sacrificing lives uncounted, putting just rebellions down,<br>Ye shall answer for the murders of the slaves compelled to bleed<br>For the commonwealth of idlers and the common cause of greed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have come for common justice to the castles of the great,<br>And the people who have sent me crave assistance at the gate;<br>They obeyed the Maker’s sentence—whey have ploughed and tilled the soil.<br>Yet they go in rags and hunger in the harvest of their toil.<br>I demand the rights of Labour in the law of God defined;<br>Pause and weigh the pregnant answer!—where is peace or war behind.<br>Are we slaves beneath the power that our industry hath given?<br>Are we fuel to feed the engines of your artificial heaven?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am come to warn the idlers at the castles of the great,<br>For the army that has sent me grows impatient at the gate:<br>They have gathered now in thousands from the alley and the den,<br>And the words of fire are breaking from the lips of quiet men!<br>Yield, and save the lives of thousands! for the rebels’ eyes are bright,<br>And the god of revolution is abroad on earth to-night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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And the foe of “law and order”, well deserving of the rod,
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That was fouled and mutilated by the ministers of greed,
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