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NEGROES LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So always, justice drowsy and hate rising
Last Line: Proffering his blood to pleasure antichrist.
Subject(s): African Americans; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Lynching; Mississippi; Murder; Negroes; American Blacks; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


(Two negroes, who were brothers and were being taken to gaol on a charge of
having murdered a sawmill superintendent, were burned to death by a mob at
Louisville, Mississippi, yesterday.—The Times, June 15, 1927.)

So always, justice drowsy and hate rising,
Men massacre the image of the Lord;
And as one died for all, so all in one
Become again a burnt offering abhorred.

These twain—of a dusk race emancipate—
Are new oblation, being sacrificed
By hands that crucify again their Jesus,
Proffering His blood to pleasure Antichrist.





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