Thou Also

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Thou Also

Cry out upon the crime, and then let slip

The dogs of hate, whose hanging muzzles track

The bloody secret; let the welkin crack

Reverberating, while ye dance and skip

About the horrid blaze! or else ye strip,

More secretly, for the avenging rack,

Him who hath done the deed, till, oozing black

Ye watch the anguish from his nostrils drip,

And all the knotted limbs lie quivering!

Or, if your hearts disdain such banqueting,

With wide and tearless eyes go staring through

The murder cells! but think⁠—that, if your knees

Bow not to holiness, then even in you

Lie deeper gulfs and blacker crimes than these.