JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
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> jks quoting Shelley from memory:
> >Rise like lions after slumber
> >In uncountable number
>
> in unvanquishable number
> Shake your chains to earth like dew
> Which in sleep had fallen on you
> Ye are many, they are few
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> ~
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> And these words shall then become
> Like Oppression's thundered doom
> Ringing through each heart and brain,
> Heard again--again--again--
>
The contrast between "The Masque of Anarchy" (from which Justin and Jenny are quoting) and "Song to the Men of England" bears glancingly on what will be my concerns in the next month or two as I develop the themes initiated in my post on "Self-sufficent fraud." Shelley's "Heard again--again--again" and "Ye are many, they are few" have a slight but I think potentially crucial difference in tone from the conclusion of "Men of England":
With plough and spade, and hoe and loom,
Trace your grave, and build your tomb,
And weave your winding-sheet, till fair
England be your sepulchre.
The lines Justin and Jenny quote catch up (in the phrase coined by Gould and Eldredge)the punctuated equilibrium which characterizes the 'rhythm' of left politics over decades and generations. The lines from "Men of England" are closer to the tone of the post from Chuck Grimes to which I responded.
Carrol