Liberty Equality Fraternity by Wilfrid Blunt Long have I searched the Earth for liberty In desert places and lands far abroad Where neither Kings nor constables should be, Nor any law of Man, alas, or God. Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood, These were my quarries which eternally Fled from my footsteps fast as I pursued,
Sad phantoms of desire by land and sea. See, it is ended. Sick and overborne By foes and fools, and my long chase, I lie. Here, in these walls, with all life’s souls forlorn Herded I wait,–and in my ears the cry,
“Alas, poor brothers, equal in Man’s scorn And free in God’s good liberty to die.”
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