The Gerry Adams poem is part of a series that includes Paisley Ian Robert Kyle, McGuinness Martin, Stalin Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, and others of such ilk.

Adams, Gerald  1948-           (Conspirator)

To the huddled masses who watch your lips conspire
And with muddled eyes can see your skin perspire
The meanness of your means toward the deadest end
The bomb, the bullet and the iron bars their sinful message send;
And we within our heart selves know the truth unfeigned
That murder is what murder is whatever else is gained.
But now a new colossus has broken free with arms upraised
Above the killed who in their price his peace with deathly silence praised.   

©justWords, Thomas Albert Fox

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