http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2862
by Odd Grimson
“Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven! — but thou, alas!
Didst never yet one mortal song inspire —
Goddess of Wisdom! here thy temple was,
And is, despite of war and wasting fire,
And years, that bade thy worship to expire:
But worse than steel, and flame, and ages slow,
Is the dread sceptre and dominion dire
Of men who never felt the sacred glow
That thoughts of thee and thine on polish’d breasts bestow.”
In the first verse of the second Canto of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5193, Lord Byron describes an occupied people who have lost sight of a former, more glorious age. He describes the situation that Europeans today are confronted with around the globe. Lost colonies and the death of remote outposts are indeed one thing, but to be tormented, harassed and subjugated in our own ancestral homelands is quite another.
With the growing Muslim menace across Europe and the Mestizo invasion of the United States, surely it won’t be long and we won’t even be able to say, “Goddess of Wisdom! here thy temple was.” Any knowledge of our ways and accomplishments will be forgotten.
Still, Byron in his youthful enthusiasm offered a solution to his Greek hosts who themselves were under the Ottoman yoke:”Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
By their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? No!
True, they may lay your proud despoilers low,
But not for you will Freedom’s altars flame.
Shades of the Helots! triumph o’er thy foe!
Greece! change thy lords, thy state is still the same;
Thy glorious day is o’er, but not thine years of shame.”
Our redemption lies in our own hands. This message is clear. Those who would protest our efforts and those who would shame us into obedience are not our friends. Tearing down a society is easy work. Our job is immensely more difficult; we must reclaim our lands and rebuild our societies. We must realize that there may still be a fire burning in our eyes, but the coming generations might not have that fire and they might not know how to dream their fathers’ dreams.