“History has tongues
Has angels has guns — has saved has praised —
Today proclaims
Achievements of her exiles long returned”

—  Stephen Spender

"Exiles From Their Land, History Their Domicile"
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: History has tongues
Has angels has guns — has saved has praised —
Today proclaims
Achievements of her exiles long returned
Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page
Glazes their bruised waste years in one
Balancing present sky.

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