"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.
We thought the light would increase.
Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.
Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.
Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.
Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon’s teeth.
Our children know and suffer the armed men."

Stephen Vincent #Benét
Litany for #Dictatorships
1935

They shot the #Socialists at half-past five
In the name of victorious Austria.
The sky
Was blue with February those four cold days
And the little snow lay lightly on the hard ground...

These were ordinary people and they are dead.
Dead where they lived, by violence, in their own homes...

Four days of bitter February,
Ill-led, outnumbered, the radio blaring lies
And the six-inch guns against them and all hope gone...

Ode to the Austrian Socialists
Stephen Vincent #Benét
1934

#poetry

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