Part 3 Desperate Years
Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do . . .
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.
– SEPTEMBER 1, 1939, by W.H....
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Yearning To
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