They live in other young men, O kings! They live in brothers again ready to defy you! They were purified by death--they were taught and exalted. Not a grave of the murder'd for freedom, but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed, Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish. Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose, But it stalks invisibly over the earth, whispering, counselling, cautioning. Liberty! let others despair of you! I never despair of you. Is the house shut? Is the master away? Nevertheless, be ready--be not weary of watching; He will return soon--his messengers come anon. The Dead to the Living BY FERDINAND FREILIGRATH (German revolutionary poet, 1810-1876. Part of a poem written after the uprising of 1848, in Berlin, when the people marched past the palace-gates with their slain, and compelled the king to stand upon the balcony and take off his hat to the bodies) With bullets through and through our breast--our forehead split with pike and spear, So bear us onward shoulder high, laid dead upon a blood-stained bier; Yea, shoulder-high above the crowd, that on the man that bade us die, Our dreadful death-distorted face may be a bitter curse for aye; That he may see it day and night, or when he wakes, or when he sleeps, Or when he opes his holy book, or when with wine high revel keeps; That always each disfeatured face, each gaping wound his sight may sear, And brood above his bed of death, and curdle all his blood with fear! Free Speech BY SIR LESLIE STEPHEN (English essayist and critic, 1832-1904) I, for one, am fully prepared to listen to any arguments for the propriety of theft or murder, or if it be possible, of immorality in the abstract. No doctrine, however well established, should be protected from discussion. If, as a matter of fact, any appreciable number of persons are so inclined to advocate murder on principle, I should wish them to state their opinions openly and fearlessly, because I should think that the shortest way of exploding the principle and of ascertaining the true causes of such a perversion of moral sentiment. Such a state of things implies the existence of evils which cannot be really cured till their cause is known, and the shortest way to discover the cause is to give a hearing to the alleged reasons. BY WENDELL PHILLIPS (American anti-slavery agitator, 1811-1884) If there is anything that cannot bear free thought, let it crack. The Mask of Anarchy BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (English poet of nature and human liberty, 1792-1822, whose whole life was a cry for beauty and freedom. He died in obloquy and neglect, and today is known as "the Poets' Poet") Men of England, Heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty mother, Hopes of her, and one another!