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Oh Seven Oh Four Twenty-Five

To-day the makeshift consolations: the shared cigarette,
The cards in the candle-lit barn, and the scraping concert,
                  The masculine jokes; to-day the
Fumbled and unsatisfactory embrace before hurting.
 
The stars are dead. The animals will not look.
We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and
                  History to the defeated
May say alas but cannot help or pardon.

—excerpt from Spain 1937 by W.H. Auden. 

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