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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 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.

from The Bruce - by John Barbour

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A! Fredome is a noble thing
/ Fredome mays man to haiff liking.
/ Fredome all solace to man giffis,
/ He levys at es that…

Dulce Et Decorum Est - by Wilfred Owen

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My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory, / The…

Stanzas - by George Gordon, Lord Byron

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When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, / Let him combat for that of his neighbours.

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…