For those slain at once.
For those living through the months and years
Enduring, watching, hoping, going each day
To the work or the queue for meat or the secret club,
Living meanwhile, begetting children, smuggling guns,
And found and killed at the end like rats in a drain.


Litany for Dictatorships (1935)

Stephen Vincent Benét Quotes

For those slain at once. For those living through the months and years Enduring, watching, hoping, going each day To the work or the queue for meat...

For those slain at once. For those living through the months and years Enduring, watching, hoping, going each day To the work or the queue for meat...

For those slain at once. For those living through the months and years Enduring, watching, hoping, going each day To the work or the queue for meat...

For those slain at once. For those living through the months and years Enduring, watching, hoping, going each day To the work or the queue for meat...