Last night I started my graduate seminar by reading Shelley:
ENGLAND IN 1819
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
A people starved and stabbed in th'untilled field;
An army, whom liberticide and pprey
Makes a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
A senate, Time's worst statute, unrepealed—
Are graves from a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.
Pierre
On Mar 3, 2006, at 2:48 AM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Shelley turns up on Juan Cole's blog - to wit, Ozymandias,
> regarding the
> hubris of Empire -
>
> http://www.juancole.com/2006/03/bush-ignored-own-national-
> intelligence.html
>
> Legislating that world again...
>
> Best
>
> A
>
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> Alison Croggon
>
> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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