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A copy of The Oxford Book of English Verse Remaindered from
the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Public Libraries
This happy gift of 1939
Rescued from the good comrades’ loving fires
From the liberation of censorship
From the gentle criminalization of thought
This little book and its happy, dancing lines
Crafted with thought and care and art and love
A celebration of civilization
Oh, save it, read it, love it, smuggle it
Because
More dangerous to tyrants than weapons
Are the poems of a people living free
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