Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
de Percy Bisshe Shelley(2005)
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I hated thee, fallen Tyrant! I did groan
To think that a most unambitious slave,
Like thou, should dance and revel on the grave
Of Liberty. Thou mightst have built thy throne
Where it had stood even now: thou didst prefer
A frail and bloody pomp, which Time has swept
In fragments towards oblivion. Massacre,
For this, I prayed, would on thy sleep have crept,
Treason and Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust,
And stifled thee their minister. I know
Too late, since thou and France are in the dust,
That Virtue owns a more eternal foe
Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime,
And bloody Faith, and foulest birth of Time.
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- Percy Bisshe Shelley
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- Poezie
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- 2005
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Percy Bisshe Shelley. “Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte.” Clasici, Poezie.ro, https://poezie.ro/clasici/percy-bisshe-shelley/poezie/feelings-of-a-republican-on-the-fall-of-bonaparteIntrebari frecvente
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