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Why were their poets silent?

In Dark Times

by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German by Humphrey Miles

 

They won’t say: when the walnut tree shook in the wind

But: when the house-painter crushed the workers.

They won’t say: when the child skimmed a flat stone

across the rapids

But: when the great wars were being prepared for.

They won’t say: when the woman came into the room

But: when the great...

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