Broken Boats / Bertolt Brecht: In Times of Extreme Persecution

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Bertolt Brecht: In Times of Extreme Persecution

Once you’ve been beaten
What will remain?
Hunger and sleet and
Driving rain.

Who’ll point the lesson?
Just as of old
Hunger and cold
Will point the lesson.

Won’t people say then
It could never have worked?
The heaviest laden
Will wish they had shirked.

What will remind them
Of all the killed?
Wounds still unhealed
Those will remind them.

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956): In den Zeiten der äussersten Verfolgung, 1940, translated by John Willett as In Times of Extreme Persecution, in Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956, ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim with the co-operation of Erich Fried, 1976

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