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No One
Shall Hunger:
Man shall spend equally.
Our Goal Which We Compel: Man shall be man.


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All have become so nervous and so cold
That each man hates the cause and distant words
Which brought him here, more terribly than bullets.


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All the lessons learned, unlearned;
The young, who learned to read, now blind
Their eyes with an archaic film;
The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune
Following the donkey s bray;
These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses
On the high door of a skull and in some corner
Of an irrefrangible eye
Some old man memory jumps to a child
— Spark from the days of energy.
And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.


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Let your ghost follow
The young men to the Pole, up Everest, to war: by
love, be shot.
For the uncreating chaos descends
And claims you in marriage: though a man, you were
ever a bride


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Consider his life which was valueless
In terms of employment, hotel ledgers, news files.
Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man.
Ask. Was so much expenditure justified
On the death of one so young and so silly
Lying under the olive tree, O world, O death?


Stephen Spender

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Stephen Spender

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Born: February 28, 1909
Died: July 16, 1995 (aged 86)
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