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Soft as the morning's pearly light	A
Where yet may rise the thunder cloud	B
Her gentle face was ever bright	A
With noble thought and purpose proud	B
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Dreamt ye that those divine blue eyes	C
That beauty free from pride or blame	D
Were fashion'd but to terrorize	C
O'er Despot's power of sword and flame	D
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Beware Those beauteous lineaments	C
Of girlhood shrine a force sublime	E
Which moulds to fearful use events	C
And dares arraign Imperial crime	E
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A fear was in the peasants' eyes	C
A palsy smote both tongue and hand	F
A network of police and spies	C
O'erspread the tyrant tortured land	F
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The dungeons swallowed all our best	G
Who next should perish none could say	C
A thousand victims of arrest	G
Were torn from us one summer day	C
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The judges sworn to guard the right	A
Interpreted the tyrant's bent	H
Though cleared by witnesses of light	A
'Twas hard to save the innocent	I
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The Senate in its ordered state	J
Might free its voice inspired no awe	K
Acquittal did not liberate	J
The Autocrat annulled the law	L
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The tender sweet Enthusiast	M
The bright eyed maid with hero's soul	N
Had watched the thickening shadow cast	M
O'er all the land in death and dole	N
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Her girlhood's secret studies late	J
And early in her princely home	O
Her converse with the good and great	J
The lessons taught by Greece and Rome	O
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Had nerved her heart to action strong	P
She joined the few who dared the worst	Q
Resolved to strike the monster Wrong	P
To wrestle with the Thing accurst	Q
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Pale Freedom's devotees whose creed	Q
Was vengeance who in silent trust	Q
Prepared themselves to bear and bleed	Q
And bravely die if die they must	Q
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What matter'd so the Despot's doom	R
And Freedom's advent nearer drew	S
Their chosen path was through the gloom	R
The perils of their choice they knew	S
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To give their all even life were sweet	Q
Not half as Ananias gave	T
So they might see the work complete	Q
Or feel it finished in the grave	T
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The early rose of womanhood	Q
Had scarce illumed her angel face	C
When 'mongst conspirators she stood	Q
The bravest in the darkest place	C
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In danger failure suffering she	U
Cheer'd on with her unchanging smile	V
Still looking forth to victory	U
As free from doubt as far from guile	V
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Stern men pursued the work of death	W
No war cry raised no flag unfurled	Q
They laid the mine whose nitric breath	W
Should blow the tyrant from the world	Q
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Dark warfare oh how pitiless	C
What else for them no right of speech	X
No right of meeting for redress	C
No right the rights of man to teach	X
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How plead their cause in burning words	C
How arm'd in just rebellion rise	C
Where gleam a million servile swords	C
Where Drown for prey a million spies	C
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To counsel organize sustain	Y
To plan escape to lead attack	Z
Her steady hand and luminous brain	Y
Were ever Onward never Back	Z
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Her voice was like a holy bell	A2
Calling to highest sacrifice	C
When black disaster heaviest fell	A2
She stood all smiles to pay the price	C
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Baffled surprise and bold escape	B2
Endurance long at last are o'er	C2
The Monster's jaws insatiate gape	B2
Whose cry for blood is ever More	D2
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The hunters close around her path	E2
Her forfeit life is in their hands	C
She neither bends before their wrath	E2
Nor braves her captor's hireling bands	C
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She meets her fate serene and still	F2
Above all earthly hopes and fears	C
If once her eyes the teardrops fill	F2
Her mother's grief unlocks the tears	C
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The mockery of trial came	D
And follow'd swift the words of doom	R
But ignominy woe and shame	D
Were far from her her dungeon tomb	R
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Held spiritual companions there	G2
A light which others could not see	U
Shone in her heart and everywhere	G2
To die was only to be free	U
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Six days no friendly face came near	H2
No sister's clinging arm no word	Q
From all the loved ones reach'd her ear	I2
Her mother's voice no more was heard	Q
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Six days the weeping mother sought	Q
To see her sentenced child in vain	Y
Their eyes ne'er met till she was brought	Q
Forth in the daylight to be slain	Y
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She stood beneath the felon rope	J2
Her beauty felt the hangman's hand	Q
But steadfast in her life long hope	J2
She only saw the promised land	Q
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The promised land of Truth and Right	Q
The holy cause of Freedom won	K2
She only saw the far off Light	Q
And heard the People marching on	L2
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She stood her cheek rose lighted still	F2
A moment calm and iron willed	Q
Then all of her which Power could kill	F2
Was mercilessly crushed and killed	Q
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The scaffold had its radiant prey	C
The Despot's minions breathed secure	M2
The proud and haughty went their way	C
Spurning the dead so young and pure	M2
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But souls like her's survive the fate	Q
Which tyrants in their might decree	U
And ever live to animate	Q
The nations struggling to be free	U
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Purged of the dross of earth the fire	C2
Of one great spirit's holocaust	Q
Will thousands wake to patriot ire	N2
Will raise to life a patriot host	Q

Sir Henry Parkes

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