<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540030" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines On The Expected Invasion, 1803</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">COME ye--who, if (which Heaven avert!) the Land<br>Were with herself at strife, would take your stand,<br>Like gallant Falkland, by the Monarch's side,<br>And, like Montrose, make Loyalty your pride--<br>Come ye--who, not less zealous, might display<br>Banners at enmity with regal sway,<br>And, like the Pyms and Miltons of that day,<br>Think that a State would live in sounder health<br>If Kingship bowed its head to Commonwealth--<br>Ye too--whom no discreditable fear <br>Would keep, perhaps with many a fruitless tear,<br>Uncertain what to choose and how to steer--<br>And ye--who might mistake for sober sense<br>And wise reserve the plea of indolence--<br>Come ye--whate'er your creed--O waken all,<br>Whate'er your temper, at your Country's call;<br>Resolving (this a free-born Nation can)<br>To have one Soul, and perish to a man,<br>Or save this honoured Land from every Lord<br>But British reason and the British sword.</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=540030" data-title="Lines On The Expected Invasion, 1803 de William Wordsworth" data-description="COME ye--who, if (which Heaven avert!) the Land Were with herself at strife, would take your stand, Like gallant Falkland, by the Monarch's side, And, like Montrose, make Loyalty your pride-- Come ye--who, not less zealous, might display Banners a..."></div> </div> </div>

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