Friday 31 December 2010

Rise Like Lions in 2011

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'

Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy, written about the Peterloo Massacre in 1819.

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