<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419084" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>There is Blood on the Earth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THERE is blood on the face of the earth- <br>It reeks through the years, and is red: <br>Where Truth was slaughtered at birth, <br>And the veins of Liberty bled. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! vain is the hand that tries <br>To cover the crimson stain: <br>It spreads like a plague, and cries <br>Like a soul in writhing pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It wasteth the planet's flesh;<br>It calleth on breasts of stone: <br>God holdeth His wrath in a leash<br>Till the hearts of men atone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blind, like the creatures of time;<br>Cursed, like all the race, <br>They answer: '' The blood and crime <br>Belong to a sect and place! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What are these things to Heaven—<br>Races or places of men? <br>The world through one Christ was forgiven—<br>Nor question of races then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wrong of to-day shall be rued<br>In a thousand coming years; <br>The debt must be paid in blood,<br>The interest, in tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall none stand up for right<br>Whom the evil passes by? <br>But God had the globe in sight,<br>And hearkens the weak one's cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherever a principle dies—<br>Nay, principles never die! <br>But wherever a ruler lies,<br>And a people share the lie;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where right is crushed by force,<br>And manhood is stricken dead— <br>There dwelleth the ancient curse,<br>And the blood on the earth is red!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Boyle+O%27Reilly">John Boyle O'Reilly</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=419084" data-title="There is Blood on the Earth de John Boyle O'Reilly" data-description="THERE is blood on the face of the earth- It reeks through the years, and is red: Where Truth was slaughtered at birth, And the veins of Liberty bled. Lo! vain is the hand that tries To cover the crimson stain: It spreads like a plague, and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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