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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PASSERS, THE PATRICIAN, by HAZEL HALL Poet's Biography
First Line: If culture had fluidity
Last Line: With their defeated days.
First Line: If culture had fluidity
Last Line: With their defeated days.
If culture had fluidity
It would drip from her finger-tips like rain,
And where it spattered there would be
Indelible purple stain.
If quietude had tongue what speech
Would iterate above her head,
What clamorous echoes would beseech
Behind her quiet tread.
But spent blood leaves no stain nor stir,
Save in that art which marks her ways --
The background dead hands make for her
With their defeated days.
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