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Shall tongues be mute when deeds are wrought / Which well might shame extremest hell? / Shall Pity's bosom cease to swell? / Shall Honor bleed? -- shall Truth succumb? / Shall pen and press and soul be dumb?
No; -- by each spot of haunted ground / Where Freedom weeps her children's fall -- / By Plymouth's rock and Bunker's mound, / By Griswold's stained and shattered wall, / By Warren's ghost, by Langdon's shade, / By all the memories of our dead!