Herman Melville wrote this after Lincoln's Assassination. It is particularly apt after terror attacks. But will we need to wait 3 years for the iron hand?
There is sobbing of the strong,
And a pall upon the land;
But the People in their weeping
Bare the iron hand;
Beware the People weeping
When they bare the iron hand.
-- Herman Melville's poem: The Martyr
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