Proclaiming
social truth shall spread,
And justice, ev’n tho’ thrice again
The red fool-fury of the Seine
Should
pile her barricades with dead.
But
ill for him that wears a crown,
And him, the lazar, in his rags:
They tremble, the sustaining crags;
The
spires of ice are toppled down,
And
molten up, and roar in flood;
The fortress crashes from on high,
The brute earth lightens to the sky,
And
the great Æon sinks in blood,
And
compass’d by the fires of Hell;
While thou, dear spirit, happy star,
O’erlook’st the tumult from afar,
And
smilest, knowing all is well.