A Song Of Liberty lyrics

(PLATES 25-27) 1. The eternal female groan`d! It was heard all over the earth.
2. Albion`s coast is sick silent; the American meadows faint! 3. Shadows of
prophecy shiver along by the lakes and the rivers and mutter across the ocean:
France, rend down thy dungeon; 4. Golden Spain burst the barriers of old Rome;
5. Cast thy keys, O Rome, into the deep falling, even to eternity down
falling, 6. And weep [and bow thy reverend locks.] 7. In her trembling hands
she took the new born terror, howling; 8. On those infinite mountains of
light, now barr`d out by the Atlantic sea, the new born fire stood before the
starry king! 9. Flag`d with grey brow`d snows and thunderous visages, the
jealous wings wav`d over the deep. 10. The speary hand burned aloft, unbuckled
was the shield; forth went the hand of jealousy among the flaming hair, and
hurl`d the new born wonder thro` the starry night. 11. The fire, the fire is
falling! 12. Look up! Look up! O citizen of London, enlarge thy countenance:
O Jew. Leave counting gold! Return to thy oil and wine. O African! Black
African! (Go, winged thought, widen his forehead) 13. The fiery limbs, the
flaming hair, shot like the sinking sun into the western sea. 14. Wak`d from
his eternal sleep, the hoary element roaring fled away; 15. Down rush`d,
beating his wings in vain, the jealous king; his grey brow`d councellors,
thunderous warriors, curl`d veterans, among helms, and shields, and chariots,
horses, elephants: banners, castles, slings, and rocks. 16. Falling, rushing,
ruining! Buried in the ruins, on Urthona`s dens; 17. All night beneath the
ruins, then, their sullen flames faded, emerge round the gloomy king. 18.
With thunder and fire, leading his starry hosts thro` the waste wilderness,
he promulgat