For all those beaten, for the broken heads,
The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed,
The ghosts in the burning city of our time…


Litany for Dictatorships (1935)

Stephen Vincent Benét Quotes

For all those beaten, for the broken heads, The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed, The ghosts in the burning city of our time…

For all those beaten, for the broken heads, The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed, The ghosts in the burning city of our time…

For all those beaten, for the broken heads, The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed, The ghosts in the burning city of our time…

For all those beaten, for the broken heads, The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed, The ghosts in the burning city of our time…