Aaron on Nostr: “Onwards! it is now the time to act; and what signifies self, if a single spark of ...

“Onwards! it is now the time to act; and what signifies self, if a single spark of that which would be worthy of the past can be bequeathed unquenchably to the future? It is not one man, nor a million, but the spirit of liberty which must be spread. The waves which dash on the shore are, one by one, broken; but yet the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the armada; it wears the rock; and if the Neptunians are to be believed, it has not only destroyed but made a world.” At Naples, in the Romagna, wherever he saw a spark of noble life stirring, he was ready for any exertion; or danger, to blow it into a flame. He stigmatized baseness, hypocrisy, and injustice, whencesoever they sprang. “Yet, Freedom! yet, thy banner torn, but flying, Streams, like the thunder-storm, against the wind: Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind. The tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind, Chopped by the axe, looks rough and little worth, But the sap lasts—and still the seed we find Sown deep, even in the bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth.”

Giuseppe Mazzini
Byron and Goethe

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