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Lasnamae tale
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Hammers, sickles, stars, posters,	1
Emblems of a religion.	2
Seven Sisters are your temples.	3
The doms tell the tale.	4
The spirit in gray cement,	5
That calls to me from the grave.	6

They tell	7
Of defeat and depression.	8
But hint	9
Of pride	10
And an ideal:	11

Proletariat free from bourgeoisie,	12
Prosperity, freedom, equality.	13

Yet they search	14
For the kernel	15
The meaning elusive	16
As a ghost	17
Wandering in the desert.	18
Foundation gone,	19
But images remembered.	20

Return.	21
Return to the ancient order.	22
Of pyramids and ziggurats,	23
Of Ramadan,	24
Of squares, triangles, circles,	25
Of Jacob’s ladder,	26
Of stone guilds and crusaders,	27
Of stairways to heaven.	28

The great level themselves	29
And lift the low.	30
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