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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Passing Cromwell Street</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Melbourne streets named in his honour though he does not warrant such fame<br>For he lived a life of dishonour yet he never felt any shame<br>For his crimes against the poor of Ireland the winners write the history they say<br>And historians are too kind to Cromwell the one who did awful things in his day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He evicted the poor of rural Ireland those who only knew of poverty<br>And put them on the hard road to Connacht the victims of crimes against humanity<br>His army were thugs and not soldiers for they did things that soldiers ought not do<br>The winners always write the history though their version of history is often not true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Cromwell's time the winners wrote the history and the winners still write the history today<br>But for any crimes against humanity the winners too should be made to pay<br>But Cromwell and his army honoured for their crimes in Ireland against the poor defenceless poor<br>'Tis sad to think that one so unworthy of a place in history is secure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To hell or to Connacht his catch cry he forced thousands of poor families on the road<br>To people who were penniless and innocent not one scrap of mercy he showed<br>Thousands of them died in the harsh Irish Winter when homelessness on them took it's toll<br>Because they were poor they were punished though their life circumstances beyond their control.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think of the untruths of history each time I drive by Cromwell street<br>The history written by winners their history of lies and deceit<br>I say to myself they honour a tyrant and I struggle for to understand<br>Why they name a street after somebody who oppressed the poor of Ireland.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Andrew Marvell in verse glorified Cromwell but he was one who would not know<br>What Cromwell and his army got up to in Ireland in those bleak times centuries ago<br>But he only believed what they told him and they told him what he wanted to hear<br>History often written by unworthy people those who rule by terror and fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Melbourne streets named in his honour his poor victims long forgotten and gone<br>Into the World of the forgotten but Cromwell's fame is living on<br>And the lessons we should have learned from history did not lead to a fair go for all<br>And the winners only write the story though the real truth they never recall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q>
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For he lived a life of dishonour yet he never felt any shame
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