<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">Candles in Babylon</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Through the midnight streets of Babylon</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">between the steel towers of their arsenals,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">between the torture castles with no windows,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">we race by barefoot, holding tight</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">our candles, trying to shield</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the shivering flames, crying</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">"Sleepers Awake!"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>hoping</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the rhyme's promise was true,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">that we may return</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">from this place of terror</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">home to a calm dawn and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the work we had just begun.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Denise Levertov</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>