Lawrence Hall
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General Robert E. Lee Stands Down
Richmond, Virginia
8 September 2021
Today his statue will be lifted
down
And broken up to be
museumed somewhere
Beyond the roar of cannon
and musketry
Beyond the hiss of tear gas
and abuse
The most sentimental
mythologies
Might be the worst: moonlight
and magnolias
And sweet old songs
softening and perfuming
The memories of bloody chains
and whips
Let us hope that the
plinth is left intact -
For a new statue, a
universal pact
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