Mari Evans

The Insurgent
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Give me my freedom
lest I die
for pride runs through my veins
not blood
and principles
support me so that
I
with lifted head see
Liberty . . . . not sky!
For I am he who
dares to say
I shall be Free, or dead -
today. . .                


in: "For Malcolm", p.4, in "Part I. The Life"