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E Minor Prelude
By Frederic Chopin
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Nicholas Gordon
Just think of how it
was that hot July
Under threat of being hanged for treason.
Let yourself have faith enough to die,
Yet let that faith be in the power of reason.
Feel the heady fear of rash rebellion,
Of chaos, blood, death, vengeance, mayhem, blight.
Unleash with noble words that ancient hellion
Reigning cruelly over years of night.
They turned out to be right, those bold, brave
men.
However, think what terrors faced them
then.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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