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Old Man's Hope is a poem by Allan Octavian Hume, the founder of the Indian National Congress, in which he sought to channel the zeitgeist of unrest prevalent in India in the 1880s towards a self-rule movement.〔"Humanity: The Positivist Review", Watts, 1911.〕〔S.R. Mehrotra, "Towards India's Freedom and Partition", Vikas Publishing House, 1978, ISBN 0-7069-0712-4.〕 ==The poem== The text of the poem is as follows〔K. Vyasa Rao, "India's claim for home rule", Ganeshi & Co., 1917.〕 - ::''Sons of Ind, why sit ye idle,'' ::''Wait ye for some Deva's aid?'' ::''Buckle to, be up and doing!'' ::''Nations by themselves are made!'' ::''Yours the land, lives, all, at stake, tho ::''Not by you the cards are played;'' ::''Are ye dumb? Speak up and claim them!'' ::''By themselves are nations made!'' ::''What avail your wealth, your learning,'' ::''Empty titles, sordid trade?'' ::''True self-rule were worth them all!'' ::''Nations by themselves are made!'' ::''Whispered murmurs darkly creeping,'' ::''Hidden worms beneath the glade,'' ::''Not by such shall wrong be righted!'' ::''Nations by themselves are made!'' ::''Are ye Serfs or are ye Freemen,'' ::''Ye that grovel in the shade?'' ::''In your own hands rest the issues!'' ::''By themselves are nations made!'' ::''Sons of Ind, be up and doing,'' ::''Let your course by none be stayed;'' ::''Lo! the Dawn is in the East;'' ::''By themselves are nations made!'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Old Man's Hope」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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