FREEDOM.
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free. If there bteatbt* on ear h a slave, \re ye truly free* and brave? If ve do not feel the ehain. When it woiks another’s pain, \re* vc* not base slaves indeed, Slave's unwortln to be freed?
Women! who shall one* day hear S *ns to breathe s\\,M*t Fre'cdom’s air. If \e lie*, r, without a blush, De*relv lee make »he* remsed b!o«.e| rush I ike* ie.l lava through vnur veins Feu your -i-ters now in chains - Answe.r! A 1 e* ye fit te> be Mothers of the brave and free?
Is true* freetlemi but to bre*ak l etters fen emr own dear sake? \nd with leathern hearts forget Thai we* owr mankind a elebt ? No! true frcrdeim is to share Ml the* « h lieis that e thers wear, \nd with he*an and hand to be Earnest to make others free!
Thev are slaves who fear to speak I >r the* fallen and the* weak : Thev are slave* who will not e noose I la're d, scoffing and abuse. Rather than in silence shrink From the* truth that needs must think ; Thev are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or thiee.
—Lowell
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White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 289, 18 July 1919, Page 2
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210FREEDOM. White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 289, 18 July 1919, Page 2
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