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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. LITTLE HEART, by                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Little heart within the cage so many years - year after year
Last Line: I and my joy will surely pass on.
Subject(s): Love


Little heart within thy cage so many years—year after year—
Beating, still beating, so tenderly yearning
For Comrade love, the love which is to come:
Often near stopping, or wounded like a bird, so full of pain—thy
thread of life almost snapt—
Yet with joy so wonderful over all and through all continuing:

Soon altogether shalt thou stop, little heart, and the beating and the pain
here shall cease;
But out of thee that life breathed into the lips of others shall never stop
nor cease.
Through a thousand beautiful forms—so beautiful!—through the
gates of a thousand hearts—emancipated freed we will pass on:
I and my joy will surely pass on.





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