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of the poor!—go on— Speak for the Truth and Right! Onward—though hate and scorn Gloom round thee as the night. Speak—at each word of thine, Some ancient Fraud is riven— And through its rents of ruin shine The sunbeams and the heaven! Speak—for thy voice will be Welcome in each abode, Where manhood's heart and knee Are bended but to God— Where honest bosoms hold Their holy birthright well— Where Freedom spurns at Mammon's gold— Where Man is not to sell!