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<\/p>\nFriends, Malaysians, countrymen, lend me your ears
\nI come to bury Liberty, not to praise Liberty.
\nThe evil that men do lives after them;
\nThe good is oft interred with their bones;
\nSo let it be with Liberty.\u00a0 The noble Prime Minister
\nHath told you Liberty was menacing
\nIf it were so, it was a grievous fault,
\nAnd grievously hath Liberty answered it.
\nHere, under leave of the Prime Minister and the rest \u2014
\nFor the Prime Minister is an honorable man;
\nSo are they all, all honorable men \u2014
\nCome I to speak in Liberty’s funeral.
\nLiberty was my friend, faithful and just to me
\nBut the Prime Minister says Liberty was a menace;
\nAnd the Prime Minister is an honorable man.
\nHe hath brought many captives home,
\nWhose shackle did Liberty breaks
\nDid this in Liberty seem menacing?
\nWhen that the shackled had cried, Liberty hath wept.
\nMenace should be made of sterner stuff
\nYet the Prime Minister says Liberty was menacing;
\nAnd the Prime Minister is an honorable man.
\nYou all did see that before
\nWhen the Prime Minister was slumbering,
\nLiberty saved us: was this menacing?
\nYet the Prime Minister says Liberty was menacing;
\nAnd, sure, the Prime Minister is an honorable man.
\nI speak not to disprove what the Prime Minister spoke,
\nBut here I am to speak what I do know.
\nYou all did love Liberty once, not without cause
\nWhat cause withholds you then to mourn for Liberty?
\nO judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
\nAnd men have lost their reason!\u00a0 Bear with me;
\nMy heart is in the coffin there with Liberty,
\nAnd I must pause till my heart comes back to me.<\/p>\n
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p\/s \u2014 surely, whose lines improvised, is clear for attribution. Else pick up those leaves, and turn them religiously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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