Bravery

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  We will speak on; we will be heard;
  Though all earth's systems crack,
  We will not bate a single word,
  Nor take a letter back.

  We speak the truth; and what care we
  For hissing and for scorn
  While some faint gleaming we can see
  Of Freedom's coming morn!

  Let liars fear; let cowards shrink;
  Let traitors turn away;
  Whatever we have dared to think,
  That dare we also say.

© James Russell Lowell