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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350934" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Posterity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Indeed I live in the dark ages!<br>A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens<br>A hard heart. He who laughs<br>Has not yet heard<br>The terrible tidings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, what an age it is<br>When to speak of trees is almost a crime<br>For it is a kind of silence about injustice!<br>And he who walks calmly across the street,<br>Is he not out of reach of his friends<br>In trouble?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is true: I earn my living<br>But, believe me, it is only an accident.<br>Nothing that I do entitles me to eat my fill.<br>By chance I was spared. (If my luck leaves me<br>I am lost.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They tell me: eat and drink. Be glad you have it!<br>But how can I eat and drink<br>When my food is snatched from the hungry<br>And my glass of water belongs to the thirsty?<br>And yet I eat and drink.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would gladly be wise.<br>The old books tell us what wisdom is:<br>Avoid the strife of the world<br>Live out your little time<br>Fearing no one<br>Using no violence<br>Returning good for evil --<br>Not fulfillment of desire but forgetfulness<br>Passes for wisdom.<br>I can do none of this:<br>Indeed I live in the dark ages!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I came to the cities in a time of disorder<br>When hunger ruled.<br>I came among men in a time of uprising<br>And I revolted with them.<br>So the time passed away<br>Which on earth was given me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ate my food between massacres.<br>The shadow of murder lay upon my sleep.<br>And when I loved, I loved with indifference.<br>I looked upon nature with impatience.<br>So the time passed away<br>Which on earth was given me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my time streets led to the quicksand.<br>Speech betrayed me to the slaughterer.<br>There was little I could do. But without me<br>The rulers would have been more secure. This was my hope.<br>So the time passed away<br>Which on earth was given me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, who shall emerge from the flood<br>In which we are sinking,<br>Think --<br>When you speak of our weaknesses,<br>Also of the dark time<br>That brought them forth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For we went,changing our country more often than our shoes.<br>In the class war, despairing<br>When there was only injustice and no resistance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For we knew only too well:<br>Even the hatred of squalor<br>Makes the brow grow stern.<br>Even anger against injustice<br>Makes the voice grow harsh. Alas, we<br>Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness<br>Could not ourselves be kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you, when at last it comes to pass<br>That man can help his fellow man,<br>Do no judge us<br>Too harshly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">translated by H. R. Hays</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bertolt+Brecht">Bertolt Brecht</a><div class=q>
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Indeed I live in the dark ages!
A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens
A hard heart. He who laughs
Has not yet heard
The terrible tidings.

Ah, what an age it is
When to speak of trees is almost a crime
For it is a kind o..."></div>
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