Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A REBEL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER


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First Line: Tie a bandage over his eyes
Last Line: We would have no more power left to look on that dead face.
Subject(s): Death; Revolutions; Dead, The


TIE a bandage over his eyes,
And at his feet
Let rifles drearily patter
Their death-prayers of defeat.

Throw a blanket over his body,
It need no longer stir;
Truth will but stand the stronger
For all who died for her.

Now he has broken through
To his own secret place;
Which, if we dared to do,
We would have no more power left to look on that dead face.





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