Pour la Liberté! Égalité! Fraternité! Ou la Mort.... (Translation: For Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!) Written by Jonathan Henderson October 11, 2013 ... In order then that the social compact may not be an empty formula, it tacitly includes the undertaking, which alone can give force to the rest, that whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be compelled to do so by the whole body. This means nothing less than he will be forced to be free; for this is the condition which, by giving each citizen to his country, secures him against all personal dependence. - Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) I. A Condemned Man Ponders the Validity of a Revolution Towards Freedom When the Citizens are Forced by The Sovereign to be Free: My life hath lived Amid chance, circumstance, A star-crossed love Always in the midst, And what do I, pray you ask, Say with each instance When the partisans Conduct my trial against? I am declared an enemy To the people, mostly State, Tho be it obliged, I am but a collective of one, And as I look cross The square at His steeple, I weep deep in my abysmal heart, But display Pride before the sun. O! How shall I meet my demise Upon the Madames blades wrath? Liberté, égalité, fraternité for all Hath been, through coercion, wrought! The Bastille hath been tainted with atrocité Symbolic only of a blood bath Courtesy of Ambition and Avarices Prodigalité abjecte et la fraude! God hath descended into the pit; The idols manifested, exalted, Where shall the people turn Upon incurring crises despotique et de malice? O! I should think that Dear France will be salted Upon His wrath; for to drink De la glace de lenfer From the Eucharist chalice! II. From the Words of a Dead Father Walking, Facing the Wrath of Madame Guillotine, A General Admonition to Your Sensibilities from His: Till the day doth arise When the people again pray, I will still within my heart Continue to mediate to Him, And as my life hath reachd The conclusion of its sojourn, La fin de la journée, I impart upon you, mes enfants, My Eternity shall never be grim.
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