James Russell Lowell

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

– James Russell Lowell –

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