Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-1] of 1 Thomas Buchanan Read quotesThomas Buchanan Read QuotesThomas Buchanan Read Oh, joy to the world! the hour is come, When the nations to freedom awake, When the royalists stand agape and dumb, And monarchs with terror shake! Over the walls of majesty "Upharsin is writ in words of fire, And the eyes of the bondsman, wherever they be Are lit with wild desire. Soon shall the thrones that blot the world, Like the Orleans, into the dust be hurl'd, And the word roll on like a hurricane's breath, Till the farthest slave hears what it saith-- Arise, arise, be free!~ Thomas Buchanan Read Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print