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Poem Not To Be Spoken - by David Burnett

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The unity of the Fatherland.The honour of the nation.Law.Purity.The soul. Everywhere, always, the lies. Be careful.The lies that you spit with clenched teethAnd must speakBuild prisons and break bones.—And do you supposeTo stuff nothingness in your mouthAnd not become empty as these? Say nothing.Mouth nothing.Let silence topple their walls.

The Masque of Anarchy - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the Sea
And with great power it forth led me
To walk in the visions of Poesy.

The Unveiling - by J. B. Salmond

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Out of the mist of yearnings, prides, and shames
We raise our cairn of glorious regret,
And with God’s honour now unite the names
Men signed in bloody sweat.

Here’s a health to them that’s awa - by Robert Burns

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Here’s freedom to them that wad read,
Here’s freedom to them that wad write!
There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth would indite.

At the Tomb of Robert the Bruce, Dunfermline Abbey - by Ian A. Olson

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In any other country
/ Your tomb
/ Would have been worn smooth
/ By our devotions
/
/ But here the notice says:
/ ‘Please do not touch.’
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/ They should have…