<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538326" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sumter In Ruins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>Ye batter down the lion's den,<br>But yet the lordly beast g'oes free;<br>And ye shall hear his roar again,<br>From mountain height, from lowland glen,<br>From sandy shore and reedy fen--<br>Where'er a band of freeborn men<br>Rears sacred shrines to liberty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The serpent scales the eagle's nest,<br>And yet the royal bird, in air,<br>Triumphant wins the mountain's crest,<br>And sworn for strife, yet takes his rest,<br>And plumes, to calm, his ruffled breast,<br>Till, like a storm-bolt from the west,<br>He strikes the invader in his lair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What's loss of den, or nest, or home,<br>If, like the lion, free to go;--<br>If, like the eagle, wing'd to roam,<br>We span the rock and breast the foam,<br>Still watchful for the hour of doom,<br>When, with the knell of thunder-boom,<br>We bound upon the serpent foe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! noble sons of lion heart!<br>Oh! gallant hearts of eagle wing!<br>What though your batter'd bulwarks part,<br>Your nest be spoiled by reptile art--<br>Your souls, on wings of hate, shall start<br>For vengeance, and with lightning-dart,<br>Rend the foul serpent ere he sting!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your battered den, your shattered nest,<br>Was but the lion's crouching-place;--<br>It heard his roar, and bore his crest,<br>His, or the eagle's place of rest;--<br>But not the soul in either breast!<br>This arms the twain, by freedom bless'd,<br>To save and to avenge their race!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Gilmore+Simms">William Gilmore Simms</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=538326" data-title="Sumter In Ruins de William Gilmore Simms" data-description="I. Ye batter down the lion's den, But yet the lordly beast g'oes free; And ye shall hear his roar again, From mountain height, from lowland glen, From sandy shore and reedy fen-- Where'er a band of freeborn men Rears sacred shrines to liberty. II..."></div> </div> </div>

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