“Your bounty is beyond my speaking;
But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.”
Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718) English poet, dramatist
Jane Shore (1714), Act II, scene 1.
“Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.”
"Written-In-Red" Stanza 2
Context: Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.
But the shrouded Living, whose hearts were numb,
have felt the beat of a wakening drum
Within them sounding — the Dead men’s tongue —
Calling: "Smite off the ancient rust!"
Have beheld "Resurrexit," the word of the Dead,
Written-in-red.
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Your guns have spoken and they are dust." by Voltairine de Cleyre?
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Context: 23. “But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. 24. “And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven; there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.”— Deut. Vii. If these words had proceeded from the mouth of a demon, if they had been spoken by some enraged and infinitely malicious fiend, I should not have been surprised. But these things are attributed to a God of infinite mercy.
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The Rubaiyat (1120)
“They shall not live who have not tasted death.
They only sing who are struck dumb by God.”
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"Poets"
Trees and Other Poems (1914)
Context: p>Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells
That the wind sways above a ruined shrine.
Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells
Hunger that craves immortal Bread and Wine. Light songs we breathe that perish with our breath
Out of our lips that have not kissed the rod.
They shall not live who have not tasted death.
They only sing who are struck dumb by God.</p
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