344. A Stanza on Freedom by James Russell Lowell. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

344. A Stanza on Freedom

By James Russell Lowell


THEY are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink	5
From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.