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Lord Alfred Douglas - Not All The Singers Of A Thousand Years
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Not all the singers of a thousand years 
Can open English prisons. No. Though hell 
Opened for Tracian Orpheus, now the spell 
Of song and art is powerless as the tears 
That love has shed. You that were full of fears, 
And mean self-love, shall live to know full well 
That you yourselves, not he, were pitiable 
When you met mercy`s voice with frowns or jeers. 

And did you ask who signed the plea with you? 
Fools! It was signed already with the sign 
Of great dead men, of God-like Socrates, 
Shakespeare and Plato and the Florentine 
Who conquered form. And all your pretty crew 
Once, and once only, might have stood with these.
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