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Bertolt Brecht — Part 1
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establt shing fost wases for us,
will now take cver the factories curselves= . : on
const deration of the fact thet without you there will | cai
No matter what it promises,
_ have decided to esteblish a good life for ourselves, now,
“Under our own leacership. ; _
, (Chorus as above)
= conside eration of the zact that you Listen only to cannons<~
_ You cen't understand any other language~
We havs to turn the cannons on you~ © es ,
yes, t would de the trick." ee
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* he "Invincible Inscription® as found on Page 38.
gt the time of the world war, in a cell of the Itelian prison,
_ San Carlo, full of arrested ssldiers, drunks and thieves,
. @ Socialist soldier acratcheé on the wall with a copying pencil:
. WHail Lenta.
" Sway at the to; in the tzlf dark cell, hardly visible, but
2. " written in nenstrous letters.
yoga the keeper saw it, they sent a painter with a pail of lim,
"and with a lonz hendled brush he covered the threatening inscripticn.
pat Since he, however, only traced the charactera with the lime,
>, There stood up in the cell, now in line:
' Kail Lenin.
i secord paiy.ter painted ever the wiole thing with @ Sroac
fo that 1t crulc:.'t be sean for hours,
wat toward rerning, when the lime dried,
’ the inscription ega‘r. appeared:
"fail Lenin. ,
Then the keeper sent 2 mason with a chisel after the inscription,
and he scratched out letter ty letter, for an hour,
-. | and when he hei Sinished, thare stood high vp in the cell,
,. Mow cclorless, but cut deep into the wall, the invincible inscriptics:
. field tant ws
Tie BEF Lied
_ ‘am then remove the wall, said the soldier".
Dercliticn of the Snip Oekawe by the Crew" 19 contcaine: c:. . |
hen
Ma oey
a the becinnin> of the year 1922, I signed on the 6,003 ten steamer
inc, built four years previously for two million dollars ty § Ca
ted’ Stetes Shipping Board. ‘Se took on a cargo of champagne
wheurs in Hanbureg for tio. Since the pay was poor, we felt the “need
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