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Robert Laurence Binyon - To Goethe 21
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Will they blot also out your name 

Because you praise 
All works of men that shrine the flame 

Of beauty`s ways, 

Wherever men have proved them great, 

Nor, drunk with pride, 
Saw but a single swollen State 

And naught beside, 

Nor dreamed of drilling Europe`s mind 

With threat and blow 
The way professors have designed 

Genius should go ? 

Or shall a people rise at length 

And see and shake 
The fetters from its giant strength, 

And grandly break 

This pedantry of feud and force 

To man untrue 
Thundering and blundering on its course 

To death and rue ?
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