And wide as targes let them be, LXXVI "Let the tyrants pour around LXXVII "Let the charged artillery drive LXXVIII "Let the fixed bayonet Gleam with sharp desire to wet LXXIX "Let the horsemen's scimitars Wheel and flash, like sphereless stars LXXX "Stand ye calm and resolute, Like a forest close and mute, lxviii. 2 sharp || keen, Wise MS. cancelled. 4 keen sharp, Wise MS. cancelled. With folded arms, and looks which are Weapons of unvanquished war. LXXXI "And let Panic, who outspeeds The career of armed steeds, Pass, a disregarded shade, Through your phalanx undismayed. LXXXII "Let the laws of your own land, LXXXIII "The old laws of England - they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo -- Liberty! LXXXIV "On those who first should violate LXXXV "And if then the tyrants dare, lxxx. 4 Wise MS. || of an, Hunt MS., Hunt, 1832. LXXXVI "With folded arms and steady eyes, rage LXXXVII "Then they will return with shame LXXXVIII 66 Every woman in the land Will point at them as they stand; LXXXIX "And the bold true warriors, Who have hugged Danger in wars, XC "And that slaughter to the Nation Eloquent, oracular; A volcano heard afar. lxxxvi. 3 slay, Wise MS., Hunt MS., Mrs. Shelley, 18391 || stay, Hunt, 1832. lxxxix. 2 in wars, Wise MS., Hunt MS., Hunt, 1832 || in the wars, Mrs. Shelley, 18391. XCI "And these words shall then become Like oppression's thundered doom, Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again — again — again! XCII "Rise like lions after slumber Shake your chains to earth, like dew xci. 1 then become || be the beacon, Hunt MS. cancelled. |