XXXVII
'Men
of England,
heirs of Glory,
Heroes of unwritten story,
Nurslings of one mighty Mother,
Hopes of her, and one another;
Heroes of unwritten story,
Nurslings of one mighty Mother,
Hopes of her, and one another;
XXXVIII
'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.’
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.’
So says dying Hope in Percy Shelly’s The Mask of Anarchy. It’s the kind of sentiment I hoped would be
applied to TV’s Anarky.
I hardly expected this version to spout off about Washington
Bullets, civilian drone casualties, war on whistle blowers, but the whitewashed
declawed one I saw made Dennis the Menace
look like Sid Vicious.
I'm not afraid of Beware the Batman... I'm angry! Pogo through the break.
