१८५७ का स्वातन्त्र्य समर (वीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर - अंग्रेजों द्वारा छपने से पूर्व प्रतिबन्धित महाग्रन्थ)

THE VOLCANO
fire pit, Behold, arises at last the presiding Deity, terrible
to look at! Salutes innumerable to Thee, O War God,
O Lord of Hosts! Under whose fierce insolence tyranny
and injustice are ground and burnt to ashes, by the
mighty hammer in whose hands the shackles of slavery
get knocked down to pieces and Nations are set free and
whose hundred and one red hot tongues are lolling out
from hundred and one mouths athirst to lick up battlefulls
of blood when loaded war clouds burst out on Nations
fighting for life, for death,—that aspect of Thee, O spirit
of War, O Har—the terrible! We contemplate, we wor-
ship! Be propitious! Wilt thou, O Lord, sharpen the
edge of our sword and bless it with Victory?
“ If not, perchance, with victory—with Vengeance will
I bless your sword ! !—yes vengeance, the force de-
terent, the Nemesis which tyranny dreads like death and
which holds in the hollow of its hands the seeds of a
Victory to come ! ! ”
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