Where Shall We Bury Our Shame?

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Title:     Where Shall We Bury Our Shame?
Author: Thomas Moore [More Titles by Moore]

(NEAPOLITAN AIR.)

Where shall we bury our shame?
Where, in what desolate place,
Hide the last wreck of a name
Broken and stained by disgrace?
Death may dissever the chain,
Oppression will cease when we're gone;
But the dishonor, the stain,
Die as we may, will live on.

Was it for this we sent out
Liberty's cry from our shore?
Was it for this that her shout
Thrilled to the world's very core?
Thus to live cowards and slaves!--
Oh, ye free hearts that lie dead,
Do you not, even in your graves,
Shudder, as o'er you we tread?

[The end]
Thomas Moore's poem: Where Shall We Bury Our Shame?

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