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the poem as
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Audio and Video Music:
Virtutes Instrumenti.
By Kevin MacLeod.
Performed by
Kevin MacLeod
at the Free Music Archive
under an Attribution
license.
Hope is not a
harbinger of peace
As countless holocausts have made quite clear.
Perhaps the unsolved problem is that fear
Prevents the heart from seeking its release.
Years pass; we come no closer to the good,
Nor do we better understand why we
Each year have hope to live in harmony
While watering our fields with tears and blood.
Yet hope remains, and love, that hope revives.
Each knows well that hatred is insane,
And hates and fears and loves and hates again,
Resolving ever to keep hope
alive.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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