<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580329" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To The Sleepers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While Amazonia burns, <br>And polar ice-caps melt, <br>Or flood defences burst, <br>You sleep, you sleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While staff are hired and fired, <br>Short-term contracts expire, <br>And harsh cuts are required, <br>You sleep, you sleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While work or classmates demonstrate, <br>By packing squares and thronging streets, <br>Or circulating leaflets, and making rousing speech, <br>You sleep, you sleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Come join us, play your part, <br>Help make our numbers swell.”<br>We urge, exhort, entreat. <br>You hear us not, you sleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some day you shall wake up to find<br>That while you’ve slept and sweet dreams dreamt, <br>Events have passed you by – <br>The deck’s re-shuffled, chairs re-arranged, <br>And precious rights been snatched away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So one more time we say: “Awake! <br>Come off the fence, for Heaven’s sake. <br>Commit yourselves, before ‘t’s too late.”<br>But still you sleep… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">31/10/08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denys+E.+W.+Jones">Denys E. W. Jones</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=580329" data-title="To The Sleepers de Denys E. W. Jones" data-description="While Amazonia burns, And polar ice-caps melt, Or flood defences burst, You sleep, you sleep. While staff are hired and fired, Short-term contracts expire, And harsh cuts are required, You sleep, you sleep. While work or classmates demon..."></div> </div> </div>

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