WIST QuotationsRise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many — they are few.
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many — they are few.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet
Poem (1819), “The Mask of Anarchy,” st. 38
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Poem (1819), "The Mask of Anarchy," st. 38 | WIST Quotations
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many -- they are few. Writing as the voice of England talking to her children. The words are repeated in the final stanza. The poem was…