That we should dedicate ourselves to their unfinished mission and we shall honour what they have done for this country.
The speaker had a specific identity. He was A.H.'s friend and this was the way he mourned him. No one else mourned him with those words. No one else shared the same experiences with A.H. The I may be known to the reader but that doesn't matter. The I is expressing his personal grief in his poems.
To state your position in a clear and arguments manner .