“Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.”

—  Voltairine de Cleyre

"Written-In-Red" Stanza 2
Context: Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.
But the shrouded Living, whose hearts were numb,
have felt the beat of a wakening drum
Within them sounding — the Dead men’s tongue —
Calling: "Smite off the ancient rust!"
Have beheld "Resurrexit," the word of the Dead,
Written-in-red.

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American anarchist writer and feminist 1866–1912

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