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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472402" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">YES, tyrants, you hate us, and fear while you hate<br>The self-ruling, chain-breaking, throne-shaking State!<br>The night-birds dread morning,--your instinct is true,--<br>The day-star of Freedom brings midnight for you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why plead with the deaf for the cause of mankind?<br>The owl hoots at noon that the eagle is blind!<br>We ask not your reasons,--'t were wasting our time,--<br>Our life is a menace, our welfare a crime!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have battles to fight, we have foes to subdue,--<br>Time waits not for us, and we wait not for you!<br>The mower mows on, though the adder may writhe<br>And the copper-head coil round the blade of his<br>scythe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'No sides in this quarrel,' your statesmen may urge,<br>Of school-house and wages with slave-pen scourge!--<br>No sides in the quarrel! proclaim it as well<br>To the angels that fight with the legions of hell!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They kneel in God's temple, the North and the South,<br>With blood on each weapon and prayers in each mouth.<br>Whose cry shall be answered? Ye Heavens, attend<br>The lords of the lash as their voices ascend!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O Lord, we are shaped in the image of Thee,--<br>Smite down the base millions that claim to be free,<br>And lend thy strong arm to the soft-handed race<br>Who eat not their bread in the sweat of their face!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So pleads the proud planter. What echoes are these?<br>The bay of his bloodhound is borne on the breeze,<br>And, lost in the shriek of his victim's despair,<br>His voice dies unheard.--Hear the Puritan's prayer!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O Lord, that didst smother mankind in thy flood,<br>The sun is as sackcloth, the moon is as blood,<br>The stars fall to earth as untimely are cast<br>The figs from the fig-tree that shakes in the blast!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'All nations, all tribes in whose nostrils is breath<br>Stand gazing at Sin as she travails with Death!<br>Lord, strangle the monster that struggles to birth,<br>Or mock us no more with thy 'Kingdom on Earth!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'If Ammon and Moab must reign in the land<br>Thou gavest thine Israel, fresh from thy hand,<br>Call Baal and Ashtaroth out of their graves<br>To be the new gods for the empire of slaves!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whose God will ye serve, O ye rulers of men?<br>Will ye build you new shrines in the slave-breeder's den?<br>Or bow with the children of light, as they call<br>On the Judge of the Earth and the Father of All?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Choose wisely, choose quickly, for time moves apace,--<br>Each day is an age in the life of our race!<br>Lord, lead them in love, ere they hasten in fear<br>From the fast-rising flood that shall girdle the sphere!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q>
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The self-ruling, chain-breaking, throne-shaking State!
The night-birds dread morning,--your instinct is true,--
The day-star of Freedom brings midnight for you!

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