<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392150" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Answer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men and boys, O fathers, brothers,<br>Burst these fetters round you bound.<br>Women, sisters, wives and mothers,<br>Lift your faces from the ground!<br>O Democracy, O People,<br>East and West and North and South,<br>Rise together, one for ever,<br>Strike this Crime upon the mouth!<br>Bid them not, the men who loved you,<br>Those who fought for you and died,<br>Scorn you that you broke a small Crime,<br>Left a great Crime pass in pride!<br>England, France, the played-out countries,<br>Let them reek there in their stew,<br>Let their past rot out their present,<br>But the Future is with you!<br>O America, O first-born<br>Of the age that yet shall be<br>Where all men shall be as one man,<br>Noble, faithful, fearless, free! —<br>O America, O paramour<br>Of the foul slave-owner Pelf,<br>You who saved from slavery others,<br>Now from slavery save yourself! —<br>Save yourself, though, anguish-shaken,<br>You cry out and bow your head,<br>Crying 'Why am I forsaken?'<br>Crying 'It is finishèd!'<br>Save yourself, no God will save you;<br>Not one angel can he give!<br>They and He are dead and vanished,<br>And 'tis you, 'tis you must live!<br>Risen again, fire-tried, victorious,<br>From the grave of Crime down-hurled,<br>Peerless, pure, serene and glorious,<br>Wield the sceptre of the world!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+William+Lauderdale+Adams">Francis William Lauderdale Adams</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392150" data-title="The Answer de Francis William Lauderdale Adams" data-description="Men and boys, O fathers, brothers, Burst these fetters round you bound. Women, sisters, wives and mothers, Lift your faces from the ground! O Democracy, O People, East and West and North and South, Rise together, one for ever, Strike this Crime up..."></div> </div> </div>

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