The darkness crumbles away. It is the same old druid Time as ever, Only a live thing leaps my hand, A queer sardonic rat, As I pull the parapet’s poppy To stick behind my ear. Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew Your cosmopolitan sympathies. Now [...]
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SHALL you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you! The world’s life hangs on your right [...]
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Who built Thebes of the seven gates ? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ? And Babylon, many times demolished, Who raised it up so many times ? In what houses of [...]
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Is there for honest PovertyThat hings his head, an' a' that;The coward slave-we pass him by,We dare be poor for a' that!For a' that, an' a' that.Our toils obscure an' a' that,The rank is but the guinea's stamp,The Man's the [...]
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And though ye bind your noble prey in thongs and fetters hard and fast, And though ye lead her out to die beneath the fortress wall at last, And though she lie beneath the sod, whose fair green grass at dawning red The [...]
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The Last Poets – Band on the Wall 21/07/15 The Last Poets have long been regarded as the forefathers of Hip Hop. After forming on Malcolm X’s birthday in 1968, they became the credible soundtrack to the burgeoning Black Power movement [...]
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The Tree of Liberty by Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Heard ye o' the tree o' France, I watna what's the name o't; Around the tree the patriots dance, Weel Europe kens the fame o't. It stands where ance the Bastile stood, A prison built by [...]
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And when the war reached its final spring With no hint of a pause for breath The soldier did the logical thing And died a hero’s death. The war however was far from over, And the Kaiser thought it a crime That his soldier should be [...]
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