(They three never will write again—)
Three doomed men in Sing Sing write
A word like a torch from their night to my night.
And this is the word: “Are you justified?
We would give our lives for the men who died—
Who died—by our hand. But it would not aid.
And out of two wrongs can a right be made?”
It is thus they plead, the three doomed men—
They three never will plead again.
They must die at dawn. As a brave man faces