Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SWITZERLAND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER


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First Line: With memory's eye
Last Line: And paris quake before us?
Subject(s): Switzerland; Swiss


WITH Memory's eye,
Thou land of joy!
I view thy cliffs once more;
And tho' thy plains
Red slaughter stains,
'T is Freedom's blessed gore.

Thy woody dells,
And shadowy fells,
Exceed a monarch's halls;
Thy pine-clad hills,
And gushing rills,
And foaming water-falls.

The Gallic foe
Has work'd thee woe,
But trumpet never scar'd thee;
How could he think
That thou would'st shrink,
With all thy rocks to guard thee?

E'en now the Gaul,
That wrought thy fall,
At his own triumph wonders;
So long the strife
For death and life,
So loud our rival thunders!

O! when shall Time
Avenge the crime,
And to our rights restore us?
And bid the Seine
Be chok'd with slain,
And Paris quake before us?







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