MOURN NOT THE DEAD

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie--

Dust unto dust--

The calm, sweet earth that mothers all who die

As all men must;

Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell--

Too strong to strive--

Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell,

Buried alive;

But rather mourn the apathetic throng--

The cowed and the meek--

Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong

And dare not speak!

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