Liberty: The Vision of a Dead Man on the Streets of Quebec
Rain,
streaming
like sweat and tears
down the face of one
who promised only that
and bloody toil
washes cold about my feet
leaks away,
wasted as his passion,
in this foreign soil.
Phil Knight
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