Living
Where Are the Brave?
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Where are the brave?
With God: for Earth gives up
All who would circulate the social cup
Of sober freedom.
What men have chain'd down
Italians, Poles, Hungarians?
What? Our own.
Blush, honest England! thy embroidered knaves
Have forged the links that despots drill on slaves.
Ah England! art thou honest? but for thee
Man had been manly, Europe had been free.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Where Are the Brave?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/869/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Where Are the Brave?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/869/.
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