Feelings of the Tyrolese
Feelings of the Tyrolese - fact Summary
Support for Tyrolean Resistance
Wordsworth frames defense of homeland as a sacred duty inherited from ancestors and owed to future children. He argues that God and Nature justify taking up arms to protect the land, reading obligation in family and community signs. The poem blends solemn piety and communal celebration—songs, herds, and a united crowd—culminating in a patriotic call to armed action to assert virtue and vindicate mankind.
Read Complete AnalysesTHE Land we from our fathers had in trust, And to our children will transmit, or die: This is our maxim, this our piety; And God and Nature say that it is just. That which we 'would' perform in arms--we must! We read the dictate in the infant's eye; In the wife's smile; and in the placid sky; And, at our feet, amid the silent dust Of them that were before us.--Sing aloud Old songs, the precious music of the heart! Give, herds and flocks, your voices to the wind! While we go forth, a self-devoted crowd, With weapons grasped in fearless hands, to assert Our virtue, and to vindicate mankind.
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