If God so raise the Dead, shall He pass by <br />The Captive and the immemorable chain? <br />Fud(ce)a capta!-taken but not slain- <br />And cursèd not to die-ah, not to die? <br />Then come out of thine ages, thou art free! <br />Live but one Greek in old Thermopylæ, <br />And Greece is saved! Dark stands the Northern Fate <br />At Europe's open door; upon her nod <br />To pass that breach a hundred nations wait. <br />What! shall we meet her with the bayonet? <br />As the West sets the Sun 'twixt sea and sky <br />In that Great Gate, Immortal! let us set <br />Thy doom; quit Destiny with Destiny, <br />Meet Fate by Fate, and fill the gap with God.<br /><br />Sydney Thompson Dobell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jerusalem-13/
