"Statistics justify and scholars seize
The salients of colonial policy.
What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
To savages, expendable as Jews?"
Derek Walcott (b. 1930), Carribbean poet. A Far Cry from Africa (l. 7-10). . .
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 [Derek Walcott]. (1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Of Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies,
Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt."
Derek Walcott (b. 1930), Carribbean poet. A Far Cry from Africa (l. 1-3). . .
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 [Derek Walcott]. (1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
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