<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374696" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two Sonnets In Memory</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Nicola Sacco -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti)<br>Executed August 23, 1927<br> <br> <br>I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As men have loved their lovers in times past<br>And sung their wit, their virtue and their grace,<br>So have we loved sweet Justice to the last,<br>That now lies here in an unseemly place.<br>The child will quit the cradle and grow wise<br>And stare on beauty till his senses drown;<br>Yet shall be seen no more by mortal eyes<br>Such beauty as here walked and here went down.<br>Like birds that hear the winter crying plain<br>Her courtiers leave to seek the clement south;<br>Many have praised her, we alone remain<br>To break a fist against the lying mouth<br>Of any man who says this was not so:<br>Though she be dead now, as indeed we know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where can the heart be hidden in the ground<br>And be at peace, and be at peace forever,<br>Under the world, untroubled by the sound<br>Of mortal tears, that cease from pouring never?<br>Well for the heart, by stern compassion harried,<br>If death be deeper than the churchmen say, --<br>Gone from this world indeed what's graveward carried,<br>And laid to rest indeed what's laid away.<br>Anguish enough while yet the indignant breather<br>Have blood to spurt upon the oppressor's hand;<br>Who would eternal be, and hang in ether<br>A stuffless ghost above his struggling land,<br>Retching in vain to render up the groan<br>That is not there, being aching dust's alone?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay">Edna St. Vincent Millay</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374696" data-title="Two Sonnets In Memory de Edna St. Vincent Millay" data-description="(Nicola Sacco -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti) Executed August 23, 1927 I As men have loved their lovers in times past And sung their wit, their virtue and their grace, So have we loved sweet Justice to the last, That now lies here in an unseemly plac..."></div> </div> </div>

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