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THE SINGING SAVIORS by CLEMENT WOOD

First Line: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES,' THEY CHUCKLED
Last Line: LISTEN.... THEY ARE ALL THAT YOU CAN HEAR!
Subject(s): DEATH; IMMORTALITY; DEAD, THE;
"Dead men tell no tales!" they chuckled,
As the singing saviors died,
A few serene, the many shackled,
Scourged, tortured, crucified.

Dead men tell no tales.... Is Shelley
Dust blown dumbly over the ground?
Are Keats and Burns silenced wholly?
Do Milton's stiff lips give no sound?

Is Shakespeare voiceless, Dante tongueless?
And, in this black, protesting year,
Is the dead Jesus wordless, songless?
Listen.... They are all that you can hear!



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