Countee Cullen by Countee Cullen

Author:Countee Cullen [Jackson, Major]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781598532692
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2013-06-14T19:36:00+00:00

Not Sacco and Vanzetti

These men who do not die, but send to death,

These iron men whom mercy cannot bend

Beyond the lettered law; what when their breath

Shall suddenly and naturally end?

What shall their final retribution be,

What bloody silver then shall pay the tolls

Exacted for this legal infamy

When death indicts their stark immortal souls?

The day a slumbering but awful God,

Before Time to Eternity is blown,

Examines with the same unyielding rod

These images of His with hearts of stone,

These men who do not die, but death decree,—

These are the men I should not care to be.

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