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6 May 2005, 00:54
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Evul Critter
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Help with a Poem
'Cringe and temporize, and dumbly stand at rest,
While pity's burning flood of words is red-hot in the breast'
Does anyone know what poem this is from and who wrote it? Its part of an article by W.T Stead, but it's obviously from a poem or perhaps the bible.
cheers.
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6 May 2005, 01:01
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Street Tramp
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Re: Help with a Poem
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
ON THE SURRENDER OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE
* Says Google.
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Look on who will in apathy, and stifle, they who can,
The sympathies, the hopes, the words, that make man truly man;
Let those whose hearts are dungeoned up, with interest or with ease,
Consent to hear, with quiet pulse, of loathsome deeds like these.
I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast
Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk, that will not let me rest;
And if my words seem treason to the dullard and the tame,
'Tis but my Bay State dialect—our fathers spake the same.
Shame on the costly mockery of piling stone on stone
To those who won our liberty! the heroes dead and gone!
While we look coldly on and see law-shielded ruffians slay
The men who fain would win their own! the heroes of to-day!
Are we pledged to craven silence? O, fling it to the wind,
The parchment wall that bars us from the least of human kind!
That makes us cringe, and temporize, and dumbly stand at rest,
While Pity's burning flood of words is red-hot in the breast!
We owe allegiance to the State; but deeper, truer, more,
To the sympathies that God hath set within our spirit's core.
Our country claims our fealty; we grant it so; but then
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men!
Though we break our fathers' promise, we have nobler duties first,
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.
Man is more than Constitutions. Better rot beneath the sod,
Than be true to Church and State, while we are doubly false to God!
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6 May 2005, 01:02
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Evul Critter
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Re: Help with a Poem
ahh nice work, cheers
wtf is JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL....?
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6 May 2005, 02:55
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Klaatu barada nikto
Join Date: Mar 2000
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Re: Help with a Poem
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Originally Posted by zakoff
wtf is JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL....?
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You can lead a horse to google but it seems you still have to type his question for him. :/
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