Rise like Lions

#shelley #peterloo #poetry A song by John Webster and Brindaband highlighting Shelley’s magnificent response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in August 1819. With lyrics selected from Shelley poems including The Mask of Anarchy and Song to the Men of England: People of England wherefore plough For the Lords who lay ye low ? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear? The seeds ye sow another reaps The wealth ye find, another heaps