<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539951" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Calais, August 1802</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IS it a reed that's shaken by the wind,<br>Or what is it that ye go forth to see?<br>Lords, lawyers, statesmen, squires of low degree,<br>Men known, and men unknown, sick, lame, and blind,<br>Post forward all, like creatures of one kind,<br>With first-fruit offerings crowd to bend the knee<br>In France, before the new-born Majesty.<br>'Tis ever thus. Ye men of prostrate mind,<br>A seemly reverence may be paid to power;<br>But that's a loyal virtue, never sown <br>In haste, nor springing with a transient shower:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When truth, when sense, when liberty were flown,<br>What hardship had it been to wait an hour?<br>Shame on you, feeble Heads, to slavery prone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</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=539951" data-title="Calais, August 1802 de William Wordsworth" data-description="IS it a reed that's shaken by the wind, Or what is it that ye go forth to see? Lords, lawyers, statesmen, squires of low degree, Men known, and men unknown, sick, lame, and blind, Post forward all, like creatures of one kind, With first-fruit offe..."></div> </div> </div>

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