THE HEROES OF FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.

Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 11, 1 August 1884, Page 14

THE HEROES OF FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.

Some sing of the times of theology’s rule, la mournful and dismal a strain ; They strive to restore Christianity’s might, To hold man in bondage again ; They sing with delight of the tyrants of old, Who plundered, and murdered, and fought But we sing the praise of far worthier men : The Heroes of Freedom of Thought !

Away with your Calvins, your popes, and your priests ! Away with your thumbscrews, away ! AY c want them no longer to spoil the fair earth ; We want something better to-day ; We want not your priests, who, to stifle the truth, Have ever unceasingly sought; Wo honor the great ones who fought for our rights : The Heroes of Freedom of Thought.

We sing to the praise of Galileo of old, Who lived to bring knowledge to man ; We sing to Hypatia, who lived to do good, In spite of the priests' cruel ban ; We sing to brave Bruno, the martyr for truth, Who stoutly and honestly fought;—■ We sing to the praise of those martyrs of old, The Heroes of Freedom of Thought ! We sing for the heroes who fight for us now And those who have not lived in vain ; We sing of the champion of freedom and truth : The great and the good Thomas Paine ! We sing of our Bradlaugh who's with us to-day, Our Ingersoll shrinking at naught ; We sing of the great and the good of all time : The Heroes of Freedom of Thought ! —David A. Axdradje.