Beyond 1776 by Maria O'Malley Denys Van Renen & Denys Van Renen

Author:Maria O'Malley,Denys Van Renen & Denys Van Renen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT004020 Literary Criticism / American / General
Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Had duty never called De Vernueil hence,

Here I had stayed in peaceful ignorance—

That duty which led me first to ask of wars,

And governments and other scenes than those

Enfolding sweet domestic harmony.

Then to a wider field my views were

opened. Simplicity retired, but my heart

throbbed With keenest sensibility—alive

To virtue and humanity. Doth it not

Loathe a foe to either—mourn that on earth

Such foes exist, to wound mankind’s repose?

Repose? If that were all! But oppression

Stalks abroad, and stains even the peaceful

Paths of life with blood! Merciless ferocity

Sways, with an uncontrolled dominion!

A monster spreads destruction! And while

he Desolates, calls out aloud, “Tis liberty!”

Why do his black deeds go unpunished?

Is there not one avenging hand to strike? (160–61)

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