A copy of The Oxford Book of English Verse Remaindered from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Public Libraries
This happy gift of 1939 Rescued from the good comradesβ loving fires From the liberation of censorship From the gentle criminalization of thought
This little book and its happy, dancing lines Crafted with thought and care and art and love A celebration of civilization Oh, save it, read it, love it, smuggle it
Because
More dangerous to tyrants than weapons Are the poems of a people living free