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23 lines
441 B
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A Song for the Spanish Anarchists
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by Herbert Read
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(From Thirty-five Poems, 1940)
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The golden lemon is not mase
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but grows on a green tree:
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A strong man and his crystal eyes
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is a man born free.
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The oxen pass under the yoke
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and the blind are led at will:
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But a man born free has a path of his own
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and a house on the hill.
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An men are men who till the land
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and women are women who weave
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Fifty men own the lemon grove
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and no man is a slave.
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