‘Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few.
ATTRIBUTION:
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), British poet. The Mask of Anarchy (l. 5–8). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.
