Of what she holds within



Responsive to Life's deeper springs.

She above the nations blest



In fruitful and in liveliest,

In all that servant earth to heavenly bidding brings,



The devotee of Glory, she may win

Glory despoiling none, enrich her kind,



Illume her land, and take the royal seat

Unto the strong self-conqueror assigned.



But ah, when speaks a loaded breath the double name,

Humanity's old Foeman winks agrin.



Her constant Angel eyes her heart's quick beat,

The thrill of shadow coursing through her frame.



Like wind among the ranks of amber wheat.

Our Europe, vowed to unity or torn,



Observes her face, as shepherds note the morn,

And in a ruddy beacon mark an end



That for the flock in their grave hearing rings.

Specked overhead the imminent vulture wings



At poise, one fatal movement indiscreet,

Sprung from the Aetna passions' mad revolts,



Draws down; the midnight hovers to descend;

And dire as Indian noons of ulcer heat



Anticipating tempest and the bolts,

Hangs curtained terrors round her next day's door,



Death's emblems for the breast of Europe flings;

The breast that waits a spark to fire her store.



Shall, then, the great vitality, France,

Signal the backward step once more;



Again a Goddess Fortune trace

Amid the Deities, and pledge to chance



One whom we never could replace?

Now may she tune her nature's many strings



To noble harmony, be seen, be known.

It was the foreign France, the unruly, feared;



Little for all her witcheries endeared;

Theatrical of arrogance, a sprite



With gaseous vapours overblown,

In her conceit of power ensphered,



Foredoomed to violate and atone;

Her the grim conqueror's iron might



Avengeing clutched, distrusting rent;

Not that sharp intellect with fire endowed



To cleave our webs, run lightnings through our cloud;

Not virtual France, the France benevolent,



The chivalrous, the many-stringed, sublime

At intervals, and oft in sweetest chime;



Though perilously instrument,

A breast for any having godlike gleam.



This France could no antagonist disesteem,

To spurn at heel and confiscate her brood.



Albeit a waverer between heart and mind,

And laurels won from sky or plucked from blood,



Which wither all the wreath when intertwined,

This cherishable France she may redeem.



Beloved of Earth, her heart should feel at length

How much unto Earth's offspring it doth owe.



Obstructions are for levelling, have we strength;

'Tis poverty of soul conceived a foe.



Rejected be the wrath that keeps unhealed

Her panting wound; to higher Courts appealed



The wrongs discerned of higher: Europe waits:

She chooses God or gambles with the Fates.



Shines the new Helen in Alsace-Lorraine,

A darker river severs Rhine and Rhone,



Is heard a deadlier Epic of the twain;

We see a Paris burn



Or France Napoleon.

For yet he breathes whom less her heart forswears



While trembles its desire to thwart her mind:

The Tyrant lives in Victory's return.



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• wisdom [´wizdəm] n.智慧，聪明，才智 (初中英语单词)


• countenance [´kauntinəns] n.面部表情；脸色；面容 (初中英语单词)


• measure [´meʒə] n.量度；范围 vt.测量 (初中英语单词)


• stream [stri:m] n.河 vi.流出；飘扬 (初中英语单词)


• embrace [im´breis] vt.&n.拥抱；采纳；信奉 (初中英语单词)


• breath [breθ] n.呼吸；气息 (初中英语单词)


• intimate [´intimit] a.亲密的 n.知己 (初中英语单词)


• cheerful [´tʃiəful] a.快乐的；高兴的 (初中英语单词)


• actual [´æktʃuəl] a.现实的；实际的 (初中英语单词)


• infant [´infənt] n.&a.婴(幼)儿 (初中英语单词)


• mistress [´mistris] n.女主人；情妇；女能手 (初中英语单词)


• shield [ʃi:ld] n.盾牌；防御 v.保护 (初中英语单词)


• conscience [´kɔnʃəns] n.良心；道德心 (初中英语单词)


• winged [´wiŋd] a.有翼的 (初中英语单词)


• invisible [in´vizəbəl] a.看不见的；无形的 (初中英语单词)


• visible [´vizəbəl] a.可见的；明显的 (初中英语单词)


• fountain [´fauntin] n.泉水；源泉；根源 (初中英语单词)


• constant [´kɔnstənt] a.坚定的；坚贞的 (初中英语单词)


• thrill [θril] v.震惊；激动；刺激 (初中英语单词)


• overhead [´əuvə,hed] ad.当头 a.在头上的 (初中英语单词)


• movement [´mu:vmənt] n.活动；运动；动作 (初中英语单词)


• midnight [´midnait] n.午夜；漆黑 (初中英语单词)


• indian [´indiən] a.印度的 n.印度人 (初中英语单词)


• backward [´bækwəd] ad.向后 a.向后的 (初中英语单词)


• goddess [´gɔdis] n.女神 (初中英语单词)


• pledge [pledʒ] n.信物；誓约vt.使发誓 (初中英语单词)


• harmony [´hɑ:məni] n.调合，协调，和谐 (初中英语单词)


• wreath [ri:θ] n.花圈；花环；圈状物 (初中英语单词)


• poverty [´pɔvəti] n.贫穷(乏，瘠)；不足 (初中英语单词)


• madness [´mædnis] n.疯狂；狂热 (高中英语单词)


• thoughtfully [´θɔ:tfuli] ad.深思地；体贴地 (高中英语单词)


• tumult [´tju:mʌlt, ´tu:-] n.喧哗；激昂；烦乱 (高中英语单词)


• historic [his´tɔrik] a.有历史意义的 (高中英语单词)


• smoothly [´smu:ðli] ad.光滑地；顺利地 (高中英语单词)


• conqueror [´kɔŋkərə] n.征服者，胜利者 (高中英语单词)


• victorious [vik´tɔ:riəs] a.得胜的，胜利的 (高中英语单词)


• ransom [´rænsəm] n.赎金；勒索 vt.赎 (高中英语单词)


• passionate [´pæʃənit] a.易动情的；易怒的 (高中英语单词)


• fortress [´fɔ:tris] n.堡垒，要塞 (高中英语单词)


• anguish [´æŋgwiʃ] n.(极度的)痛苦；苦恼 (高中英语单词)


• seeing [si:iŋ] see的现在分词 n.视觉 (高中英语单词)


• doubtful [´dautful] a.怀疑的，可疑的 (高中英语单词)


• foremost [´fɔ:məust] a.最重要的；最先的 (高中英语单词)


• vengeance [´vendʒəns] n.报复，复仇 (高中英语单词)


• fruitful [´fru:tfəl] a.成功的；丰富的 (高中英语单词)


• heavenly [´hevənli] a.天的，天空的 (高中英语单词)


• enrich [in´ritʃ] vt.使丰富；改进 (高中英语单词)


• hearing [´hiəriŋ] n.听力；听证会；审讯 (高中英语单词)


• tempest [´tempist] n.暴风雨 (高中英语单词)


• conceit [kən´si:t] n.自负；骄傲自满 (高中英语单词)


• wither [´wiðə] v.(使)枯萎(衰弱) (高中英语单词)


• tyrant [´taiərənt] n.暴君；霸主；专制君主 (高中英语单词)


• footstep [´futstep] n.足迹，脚步声 (高中英语单词)


• billow [´biləu] n.巨浪 v.(使)翻腾 (英语四级单词)


• rational [´ræʃənəl] a.(有)理性的；合理的 (英语四级单词)


• stature [´stætʃə] n.身高；身材 (英语四级单词)


• flowery [´flauəri] a.多花的 (英语四级单词)


• eastward [´i:stwəd] a.&ad.向东(的) (英语四级单词)


• potent [´pəutənt] a.有(势)力的；烈性的 (英语四级单词)


• strenuous [´strenjuəs] a.费力的；奋发的 (英语四级单词)


• valiant [´væliənt] a.勇敢的，英勇的 (英语四级单词)


• maternal [mə´tə:nl] a.母亲的；母性(系)的 (英语四级单词)


• vitality [vai´tæliti] n.活力；生命力；效力 (英语四级单词)


• violate [´vaiəleit] vt.违背；冒犯；侵害 (英语四级单词)


• intellect [´intilekt] n.智力；有才智的人 (英语四级单词)


• cleave [kli:v] v.劈(开) vi.粘住；依恋 (英语四级单词)


• antagonist [æn´tægənist] n.敌手，反对者，对手 (英语四级单词)


• confiscate [´kɔnfiskeit] vt.没收；把…充公 (英语四级单词)


• thwart [θwɔ:t] vt.阻挠 a.横(断的) (英语四级单词)


• derision [di´riʒən] n.嘲笑，嘲弄 (英语六级单词)


• nuptial [´nʌpʃəl] a.婚姻的 n.婚礼 (英语六级单词)


• footing [´futiŋ] n.立脚点；基础；地位 (英语六级单词)


• ethereal [i´θiəriəl] a.飘渺的；稀薄的 (英语六级单词)


• devout [di´vaut] a.虔诚的；热心的 (英语六级单词)


• beacon [´bi:kən] n.灯塔；信标 v.照亮 (英语六级单词)


• imminent [´iminənt] a.临头的，逼近的 (英语六级单词)


• unruly [ʌn´ru:li] a.不守规则的 (英语六级单词)


• arrogance [´ærəgəns] n.傲慢；自大 (英语六级单词)


• gaseous [´gæsiəs] a.气体的，气态的 (英语六级单词)


• chivalrous [´ʃivəlrəs] a.勇武的；武士的 (英语六级单词)


• godlike [´gɔdlaik] a.神似的 (英语六级单词)