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The Underground

Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes


To the anti-Fascists
of the Occupied Countries
of Europe and Asia.

Still you bring us with our hands bound,
Our teeth knocked out, our heads broken,
Still you bring us shouting curses,
Or crying, or silent as tomorrow,
Still you bring us to the guillotine,
The shooting wall, the headsman's block,
Or the mass grave in the long trench
But you can't kill all of us!
You can't silence all of us!
You can't stop all of us!
From Norway to Slovakia,
Manchuria to Greece,
We are like those rivers
That fill with the melted snow in spring
And flood the land in all directions.
Our spring will come.
The pent up snows of all the brutal years
Are melting beneath the rising sun of freedom.

The rivers of the world
Will be flooded with strength
And you will be washed away
You murderers of the people
You Nazis, fascists, headsmen,
Appeasers, liars, quislings,
You will be washed away,
And the land will be fresh and clean again,
Denuded of the past
For time will give us
Our spring
At last.



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