Why?

 He was our leader and our guide;
He was our saviour and our star.

We walked in friendship by his side,
Yet set him where our heroes are.


He taught disdain of fame and wealth;
With courage he inspired our youth;
He preached the purity of health,
And held aloft the torch of truth.


He bade us battle for the Right,
And led us in the carnage grim;
He was to us a living light,
And like a God we worshiped him.


He raised us from the grievous gloom,
And brimmed our hearts with radiant cheer;
And then he climbed up to his room,
And .
 .
 .
 cut his throat from ear to ear.


Let us not judge his seeming lapse;
His secret soul we could not see;
He smiled and left us, and perhaps
Death was his crowning victory.

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