Liberty
The fiery mountains answer each other;Their thunderings are echoed from zone to zone;The tempestuous oceans awake one another,And the ice-rocks are shaken round Winter's throne,When the clarion of the Typhoon is blown.
From a single cloud the lightening flashes,Whilst a thousand isles are illumined around,Earthquake is trampling one city to ashes,An hundred are shuddering and tottering; the soundIs bellowing underground.
But keener thy gaze than the lightening's glare,And swifter thy step than the earthquake's tramp;Thou deafenest the rage of the ocean; thy stareMakes blind the volcanoes; the sun's bright lampTo thine is a fen-fire damp.
From billow and mountain and exhalationThe sunlight is darted through vapour and blast;From spirit to spirit, from nation to nation,From city to hamlet thy dawning is cast,--And tyrants and slaves are like shadows of nightIn the van of the morning light.
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