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reaganrevoltion: Reading Du Bois - he’s quoting Ohio born poet Fannie Stearns Davis’s poem as he closes his reflections on the defeat of reconstruction.
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Poem of the day
Her Name Liberty
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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