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The Nadir (2) - ZaunköniG - 11.06.2008 The Nadir I There is no moment in the life of man More potent to subdue the stuff that binds His manhood into one than that which finds The work the founders of his race began, And centuries enlarged, until its span Encompasses a nation, bodies, minds And institutions, scattered to the winds Out of his life, of which it held the plan. And with the sense of something sacred sold, His heritage, and branded with the crime Against the ages, from the lowest pit, Gathered for judgment meet, his eyes behold, Tier after tier upon the banks of time, The generations of his fathers sit. II One moment and his reeling world has rolled Back into ages now no longer fit For human dwelling. Here exalted sit The cruel strong, and, with the cunning bold, Possess the mek's inheritance, and hold The good man in subjection - ages knit With blood and iron, and with arson lit, Crusted with murder, wanton, fiere and cold. And England, who so mightily championeth That freedom forced from us (our guards were met, And we went, speechless - to a living death) - England - a new light breaking on me, set My brain aworking - England lives! The breath That moment spared I hold for England yet! |