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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: SWISS AIR, by THOMAS MOORE Poet's Biography
First Line: But wake the trumpet's blast again
Last Line: From slavery's slumber, breathes to liberty!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; National Song - Switzerland; Swiss National Anthem
First Line: But wake the trumpet's blast again
Last Line: From slavery's slumber, breathes to liberty!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; National Song - Switzerland; Swiss National Anthem
BUT wake the trumpet's blast again,
And rouse the ranks of warrior men!
O War! when Truth thy arm employs,
And Freedom's spirit guides the labouring storm,
'Tis then thy vengeance takes a hallow'd form,
And like heaven's lightning sacredly destroys!
Nor, Music! through thy breathing sphere,
Lives there a sound more grateful to the ear
Of him who made all harmony,
Than the blest sound of fetters breaking,
And the first hymn that man, awaking
From Slavery's slumber, breathes to Liberty!
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