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AT SUNRISE by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI

First Line: THEY PUSHED HIM STRAIGHT AGAINST THE WALL
Last Line: AGAINST THE BEDROOM WALL.
Subject(s): CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; HANGING; EXECUTIONS; DEATH PENALTY;

They pushed him straight against the wall;
The firing squad dropped in a row;
And why he stood on tiptoes,
Those men shall never know.

He wore a smile across his face
As he stood primly there,
The guns straight aiming at his heart,
The sun upon his hair;

For he remembered, in a flash,
Those days beyond recall,
When his proud mother took his height
Against the bedroom wall.



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