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Durutti

The bullet shall not harry him again,
Who with pacific men,
The legions in their windrows laid,
Awaits the clod, the spade.
But we who keep a quiet bed
May be the dead,
If breathing be the difference;
Or lights the sense
To less than candles in a tomb
Or lanterns on a wagonboom
That throw a jolted eye of light
On the blind night.
The world's so small that it's become the stake
For those who wake.
And we know-who still use the air-
What's planted there:
Not broken days, not chunks of steel, not mud-
But sun-warmed blood. . .
Scythe, reaper, hammer, plow,
Are ready now

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20 lines · 10 stanzas