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quot Tim Thompson a little negro boy was asked to dance for the amusement of some white toughs He refused saying he was a church member One of the men knocked him down with a club and then danced upon his prostrate form He then shot the boy in the hip The boy is dead his murderer is still at large quot News Item	A
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He lifted up his pleading eyes	B
And scanned each cruel face	C
Where cold and brutal cowardice	D
Had left its evil trace	C
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It was when tender memories	E
Round Beth'lem's manger lay	F
And mothers told their little ones	G
Of Jesu's natal day	F
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And of the Magi from the East	H
Who came their gifts to bring	I
And bow in rev'rence at the feet	J
Of Salem's new born King	I
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And how the herald angels sang	K
The choral song of peace	L
That war should close his wrathful lips	M
And strife and carnage cease	L
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At such an hour men well may hush	N
Their discord and their strife	O
And o'er that manger clasp their hands	P
With gifts to brighten life	O
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Alas that in our favored land	Q
That cruelty and crime	R
Should cast their shadows o'er a day	F
The fairest pearl of time	R
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A dark browed boy had drawn anear	S
A band of savage men	T
Just as a hapless lamb might stray	S
Into a tiger's den	T
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Cruel and dull they saw in him	U
For sport an evil chance	V
And then demanded of the child	W
To give to them a dance	V
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quot Come dance for us quot the rough men said	X
quot I can't quot the child replied	Y
quot I cannot for the dear Lord's sake	Z
Who for my sins once died quot	Y
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Tho' they were strong and he was weak	A2
He wouldn't his Lord deny	B2
His life lay in their cruel hands	P
But he for Christ could die	B2
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Heard they aright Did that brave child	Y
Their mandates dare resist	Y
Did he against their stern commands	P
Have courage to insist	Y
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Then recklessly a man arose	C2
And dealt a fearful blow	D2
He crushed the portals of that life	O
And laid the brave child low	D2
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And trampled on his prostrate form	E2
As on a broken toy	Y
Then danced with careless brutal feet	Y
Upon the murdered boy	Y
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Christians behold that martyred child	Y
His blood cries from the ground	Y
Before the sleepless eye of God	Y
He shows each gaping wound	Y
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Oh Church of Christ arise arise	B
Lest crimson stain thy hand	Y
When God shall inquisition make	Z
For blood shed in the land	Y
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Take sackcloth of the darkest hue	F2
And shroud the pulpits round	Y
Servants of him who cannot lie	B2
Sit mourning on the ground	Y
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Let holy horror blanch each brow	S
Pale every cheek with fears	G2
And rocks and stones if ye could speak	A2
Ye well might melt to tears	H2
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Through every fane send forth a cry	B2
Of sorrow and regret	Y
Nor in an hour of careless ease	E
Thy brother's wrongs forget	Y
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Veil not thine eyes nor close thy lips	M
Nor speak with bated breath	I2
This evil shall not always last	Y
The end of it is death	I2
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Avert the doom that crime must bring	I
Upon a guilty land	Y
Strong in the strength that God supplies	B
For truth and justice stand	Y
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For Christless men with reckless hands	P
Are sowing round thy path	J2
The tempests wild that yet shall break	Z
In whirlwinds of God's wrath	J2

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