Stranger
Primo Levi 1919 (Turin) – 1987 (Turin)
From whatever country you come,
look at the ruins of the camp.
Think, and do all you can,
so your pilgrimage
be not in vain,
as was not in vain our death…
For you and your children,
the ashes of Auschwitz are
a warning.
Act so that the terrible fruit
of hatred,
whose traces you saw here,
will never grow a new seed
neither tomorrow, nor ever!
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Submitted by JP03 on January 29, 2015
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 332 |
Words | 67 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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