And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In antiquity, Ozymandias was an alternative name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. Even though this is Amenhotep, I couldn't help but reflect:
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
There was a time when Egypt ruled the world and was the bread basket of the known world. That was before Islam took root there. Now it's a sad sand pile full of sad and angry people who can't feed themselves as a nation.
In antiquity, Ozymandias was an alternative name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. Even though this is Amenhotep, I couldn't help but reflect:
ReplyDeleteI met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
There was a time when Egypt ruled the world and was the bread basket of the known world. That was before Islam took root there. Now it's a sad sand pile full of sad and angry people who can't feed themselves as a nation.