Romantic

Journal in Cephalonia

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THE dead have been awakened--shall I sleep?

The World's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?

The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap?

I slumber not; the thorn is in my Couch;

Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,

Its echo in my heart----