In Memoriam

Mad, as the world calls mad,

See Anarchy’s few;Fighting the False and the Bad

In all that they do;Forging a way for the Glad,

The Pure, and the True.

Bolder and clearer it grows—

The Anarchist task;Liberty’s plausible foes

To assail and unmask;Handing the torch as it glows

To all who may ask.

Great! oh, exceedingly great,

The Anarchists’ claim!

Fusing the falsehood of State

In unquenchable flame;Breaking the fetters of fate

In Humanity’s name.

Breathing with fiery breath

On the mannonite crew;Fearless, in splendor of faith,

Of the worst they can do;Blesses, in life and in death,

O beneficent few!