+ 1 - 2 | § ¶Truth never wanted swords
Too long the world has waited. Day by day
The noiseless feet of murder pass and stain
Palace and prison, street and loveliest plain,
And the slow life of freedom bleeds away.
Excerpt from: 'Ode to Mazzini', Posthumous Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne (London 1917)