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Libertatis Sacra Fames
by Oscar Wilde

Irish wit, poet and dramatist. Probably best known for his play; The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), other plays include Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895), Salome (in French and first performed 1896) and his first play Vera (first performed 1883). He also wrote fairy stories The Happy Prince (1888) and The House of Pomegranates (1891), short stories Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and other stories (1891), his only novel The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891). Other works include a collection of essays Intentions (1891), and The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898). Wilde was the key figure in the late 19th century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art's sake.


Libertatis Sacra Fames
by Oscar Wilde

Albeit nurtured in democracy,
And liking best that state republican
Where every man is kinglike and no man
Is crowned above his fellows, yet I see,
Spite of this modern fret for Liberty,
Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let clamorous demagogues betray
Our freedom with the kiss of Anarchy
Wherefore I love them not whose hands profane
Plant the red flag upon the piled-up street
For no right cause, beneath whose ignorant reign
Arts, Culture, Reverence, Honour, all things fade,
Save Treason and the dagger of her trade,
Or Murder with his silent bloody feet.


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