Skip to content
Linespedia

The Revolution In Russia.

Topics: classic

From Lapland to the land of Tamerlane,      Kamchatka to the confines of the Turk,     The spirit tyrants never can restrain      When once awake is mightily at work.     Liberty, frantic with a fearful hope,      Out of long darkness suddenly arisen,     Maddens the dull half-human herds who grope      And rend the bars of their ancestral prison.     Over the wan lone steppe her couriers speed,      The secret forest echoes her command,     She smites the sword that made her children bleed,      And Death and Havoc hold the famished land.     But God overrules, and oft man's greatest good     Is won through nights of dread and days of blood.

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"From Lapland to the land of Tamerlane,..."

W. M. MacKeracher's contribution to classic is further solidified by the brilliance found in "The Revolution In Russia."... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

Related lines

"The roarin' game, the roarin' game,         From Scotland's bonnie land it came,         The land of loch and firth and ben,         And co"

"I cannot loiter on my way,             The ice is drifting through Belle Isle,         And far to seaward by Cape Ray             Broad lea"

"There's a race, or a part of a race, if you will,         Of renown prehistoric, and vigorous still,         Who back from their fastnesses"

"I am arrayed in light and shade,             A free-born spirit of air;         A fanciful theme like a twilight dream,             Or a ma"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Continue Reading

"The roarin' game, the roarin' game,         From S..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.