Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SPANISH REVOLUTION, by JANET HAMILTON


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First Line: Blow loud the silver trumpets, blow
Last Line: Let spain improve her golden hour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Freedom; Government; Revolutions; Spain; Liberty


BLOW loud the silver trumpets, blow,
Peal high the bells of jubilee;
For freedom bids her banner flow
O'er fair Iberia, far and free.
Who would be free must strike the blow
That breaks the despot's galling chain;
'Tis struck, exulting pæans flow
For truth, for liberty, and Spain.

Arise, thou dweller in the dust!
Despotic rule, and priestly sway
Had gagg'd and chained thee till the rust
Consumed thy life and strength away.
Now, through each golden orange grove,
O'erladen vine and olive tree,
The fragrant breezes as they rove
Are breathing, "Spain shall yet be free."

She shall be free—when sacred truth,
Free and unfettered, walks abroad,
Brings to the ken of man and youth
The light of life, the Word of God.
Truth comes not with the battle cry,
She wears no garments roll'd in blood,
With counsel sage, and wisdom high,
Inspires her patriots, true and good.

The blazing torch on high she waves
The black, cowl'd Demons scowling fly;
Like Vampires feeding in the graves,
Struck by the light, they writhe and die.
So perish all the foes of truth!
Dark bigotry and lawless power,
The curse of man, the blight of youth—
Let Spain improve her golden hour.





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