...Industrial Worker from his jail cell, he quoted Shelley's lines from "The Masque of Anarchy": Arise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number....Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep have failed on you. Ye are many, they are few.4 I do not know under what conditions he was released;...

.../ But leech-like to their fainting country cling," and urged the people to assert their freedom — Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew \Vhicb in sleep bad fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few. As these intoxicating ideas fermented...

...workers in bondage. It is time they would emancipate themselves from their slave morality. THE AWAKENING "Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number,...to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many, — they are few." —Shelley. THE poet's cry, after the broken slumber of a hundred...

...making it seem as if the repetition of stanza 38 at the conclusion were changed in a great chorale: "Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number...to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few." Thus concludes the Hortatory Address, which contrasts as sharply...

...protesters against hunger and unemployment were hacked down and hundreds injured by mounted yeomanry: Men of England, heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep hath fallen on you Ye are many - they are few . . . Let a vast assembly be, And with great solemnity...

...oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again — again — again — "Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number...to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many — they are few." (360-372) Not only do these lines offer proof of the outcome they predict...