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We Will Speak Out

by James Russell Lowell(1819 – 1891)

We will speak out, we will be heard,

Though all earth's system's crack;

We will not bate a single word,

Nor take a letter back.

Let liars fear, let cowards shrink,

Let traitors turn away;

Whatever we have dared to think

That dare we also say.

We speak the truth, and what care we

For hissing and for scorn,

While some faint gleamings we can see

Of Freedom's coming morn?

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