| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | June 24 | | M. Carnot’s Death | | By John Hall Ingham (1860–1931) |
| | | | M. Sadi Carnot, the fourth President of the French Republic, was assassinated at Marseilles on June 24, 1894. |
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NOT on some despot drunk with slaughtering | |
| For whose delight the millions toil and sweat, | |
| Nor on some foolish fop o’ the coronet | |
| Whose toys and tinsel rouse the underling | |
| To murderous envy,—not on such as these | 5 |
| The blow hath this time fallen, but on one | |
| Noble and true and stainless as the sun, | |
| Who stood for Labor and the Love that frees. | |
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| Nations, avenge this death! Hound into shame | |
| This horde of hellish creatures and their creeds | 10 |
| Hateful to God and hideous to Man! | |
| —Or in the direst day since Time began | |
| Honor will be the ghost of dead men’s deeds | |
| And Liberty the shadow of a name. | | | |
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