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Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
Save when it walks in a funeral;
Boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save,
when its neck is laid between the sword and the block.
Pity the nation
whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
And whose art is the art
of patching and mimicking.
Pity the nation
that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
And farewells him with hooting;
only to welcome another trumpeting again,
Pity the nation
whose sages are dumb with years,
And whose strong men are yet in the cradle.
Pity the nation
divided into fragments,
Each fragment deeming itself a nation...!
(Reportedly translation of Khalil Jibran's poem)
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