Gorgeous - thanks Pierre -
Btw, for those interested, an update on the Rachel Corrie/NYTW debate at my
blog - http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
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On 4/3/06 2:53 AM, "Pierre Joris" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Last night I started my graduate seminar by reading Shelley:
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> ENGLAND IN 1819
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> 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.
Alison Croggon
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