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A crowd of ordinary decent folk
Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke
As three pale figures were led forth and bound
To three posts driven upright in the ground. - W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden
Attribution: W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. The Shield of Achilles (l. 34–37). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.

Categories: Assassinations, Essayist, Executions

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