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The Dungeoned Anarchist
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He crouches, voiceless, in his tomb-like cell,
Forgot of all things save his jailer’s hate
That turns the daylight from his iron grate
To make his prison more and more a hell;
For him no coming day or hour shall spell
Deliverance, or bid his soul await
The hand of Mercy at his dungeon gate:
He would not know even though a kingdom fell!
The black night hides his hand before his eyes,–
That grim, clenched hand still burning with the sting
Of royal blood; he holds it like a prize,
Waiting the hour when he at last shall fling
The stain in God’s face, shrieking as he dies:
“Behold the unconquered arm that slew a king!”