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A Curse For A Nation

A Curse For A Nation

And recoil from clenching the curse
This is the curse. Write.
Ye shall watch while strong men draw
With the bloodhounds, die or survive,
A curse from the depths of womanhood
Round the peoples smouldering fire,
Shall favor the cause.
(And no one marvels), night and day.
Therefore, the voice said, shalt thou write
My curse to-night.
With the strain
I faltered, taking up the word:
Which burns at your heart.
As lightning is from the tops of heaven.
This is the curse. Write.
For I am bound by gratitude,
Because yourselves are standing straight
And he said Write!
Beside the ill-doers!
So thus I wrote, and mourned indeed,
Because ye have https://read.99csw.combroken your own chain
Some women weep and curse, I say
For your conscience, tradition, and name
This is the curse. Write.
If curses must be, choose another
And thou shalt take their part to-night,
The nets of feudal law
Than the word ye shall speak.
I send it over the Western Sea.
Explode with a deadlier blame
How the heart melts and the tears run down.
For love of freedom which abates
Not so, my lord!
Your soul shall be sadder within
Not so, I answered. Evermore
This is the curse. Write.
And, warm for your part,
For I, a woman, have only known
The right of way:
Therefore, the voice said, shalt thou write九九藏書
For patriot virtue starved to vice on
That Christ may avenge His elect
This is the curse. Write.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Write a Nations curse for me,
What curse to another land assign,
This is the curse. Write.
When wise men give you their praise,
They shall praise in the heat of the phrase,
Because ye prosper in Gods name,
Of Freedoms foremost acolyte,
To strangle the weak;
Self-praise, self-interest, and suspicion:
Shall never dare -- O shame!
For my own lands sins: for little feet
And bribes well-meant.
Of brave men climbing a Nations height,
Of children bleeding along the street:
This is the curse. Write.
An九九藏書d deliver the earth,
In the state
When fools cast taunts at your gate,
My heart is sore
With a claim
And send it over the Western Sea.
To send thy curse against my brother.
Because thou hast strength to see and hate
Of Gods witnessing Universe
Is very salt, and bitter, and good.
By love and blood,
When ye boast your own charters kept true,
And thus, as was enjoined on me,
Beyond the Straits:
A Curse For A Nation
Yet do the fiends work perfectly
To honor in the old worlds sight,
As if carried too far.
Not open enough for two friends to kiss:
Yet keep calm footing all the time
Ye shall blush; for the thing which ye do
Wh九_九_藏_書en good men are praying erect
Shall sound like the tramp of a foe
Who stretch out kindly hands to me.
And only under your breath
To utter the thought into flame
I heard an angel speak last night,
On souls of others, -- for this wrong
In strangling martyrs, -- for this lie
Ye shall watch while kings conspire
When heavy-souled for the sins of mine?
Or throttle them backward to death;
The prayer in your ears, said low,
Therefore, the voice said, shalt thou write
Your scorn ye shall somewhat abate
What all may read.
This is the curse. Write.
With a curse of yours.
To curse, choose men.
For an oligarchic parliament,
Thats driving you forth.
Ye s九九藏書hall watch while nations strive
This is the curse. Write.
Drop faint from their jaws,
Weep and write.
The Curse
Than the worst of them all.
Go, plant your flag in the sun
And, counting the sin for a sin,
My curse to-night.
Go, wherever ill deeds shall be done,
Yet thence bear down with brand and thong
For parked-up honors that gainsay
On writhing bond-slaves, -- for this crime
From the summits of love a curse is driven,
A foul thing done within thy gate.
To brothers of mine across the sea,
For almsgiving through a door that is
Not so, I answered once again.
Derides what ye are.
My curse to-night.
As ye look oer the wall;
This is the curse. Write.