like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number

The full verse is this:

Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few

It's from shelley's the masque of anarchy , which was written nearly 200 years ago, after the peterloo massacre in 1819

It's a good verse in a good poem! And so far in my life I have heard it recited or used in a declamatory (or a description of its recital or use) four times.

i: by the radical left journalist the late paul foot (who wrote a book on shelley called red shelley, which is good on shelley's politics and ok-ish to not-very-good on the actual poetry)
ii: by foot's friend and fellow the radical left party member john rees (they were once both in the SWP: but foot died and rees was booted out, for promoting an electorcal project that became untenable) (gorgesous g.galloway was involved)
iii: by intermittently radical left popster and denizen of dalston green gartside (it's forms part of the lyrical text of a scritti politti b-side named "lions after slumber")
iv: acc.the stoutly but perhaps not radically left ilx poster the pinefox, who just noted that one j.corbyn just quoted it at his big islington rally (last night along with the injunction that "you should never be ashamed to admit that you like poetry")

so my question is this: is it time the left found and embraced ANOTHER STANZA perhaps from ANOTHER POEM?

or is this one still ok?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ieWRclcfs

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ts: masque of anarchy vs a sane revolution

http://www.soundstation.dk/images/products/large/89/136589-b.jpg

(click thru and again to enlarge and read, you know the drill, you jolly escaped asses)

Most strained poetry reference of the day pic.twitter.com/ZDHt8n1FCX

— Robert Hanks (@RobertHanks) June 9, 2017

robert hanks wrong here i think: we need new poetic memes and this one is good

ok this is how dense i am: it had not occurred to me that the labour manifesto "for the many, not the few", was intended as a direct reference to this poem

sometime ilxor owen hatherley on same: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/new-hope-for-britain/

I was raised in the British left, and I’ve often found its historical and poetic shibboleths tiresome, because they’ve always seemed limited to our small club. The club meets every year at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Dorset, where we all recite our Blake and Shelley, waffle on about Winstanley and Rainsborough while Billy Bragg plays, and sip pints from the Workers Beer Company as the rain pelts down on our heads

Kinda funny I follow a few young left socialists on Twitter - one of whom said something like Carl Rae Jaspen's "Call me Maybe" is her Internationale. She is American - but still I think these comments apply across. The young (as you said mark) didn't win but they voted in numbers and they campaigned with enthusiasm and belief - which will have implications for this kind of culture.

Certainly a left accommodating grime4Corbyn etc. you know there is something more going on.

Steve Coogan recited this days before the election, and mentioned it in his guardian article.

shelley goes to glasto