Chaplin, Ralph, 1887-1961 / 2008-07-01 00:00:00

EBOOK BARS AND SHADOWS ***


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BARS AND SHADOWS
THE PRISON POEMS OF RALPH CHAPLIN
With an introduction By Scott Nearing

1922

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
MOURN NOT THE DEAD
TAPS
NIGHT IN THE CELL HOUSE
PRISON SHADOWS
PRISON REVEILLE
PRISON NOCTURNE
THE WARRIOR WIND
TO FREEDOM
THE VISION MAKER
DISTANCES
PHANTOMS
SEVEN LITTLE SPARROWS
SALAAM!
THE WEST IS DEAD
UP FROM YOUR KNEES!
THE EUNUCH
I. W. W. PRISON SONG
TO FRANCE
VILLANELLE
WESLEY EVEREST
THE INDUSTRIAL HERETICS
BLOOD AND WINE
THE RED GUARD
THE RED FEAST
THE GIRLS WHO SANG FOR US
TO EDITH
SONG OF SEPARATION
TO MY LITTLE SON
ESCAPED!
RETROSPECT

INTRODUCTION
I.
Ralph Chaplin is serving a twenty year sentence in the Federal
Penitentiary, not as a punishment for any act of violence against
person or property, but solely for the expression of his opinions.
Chaplin, together with a number of fellow prisoners who were sentenced
at the same time, was accused of taking part in a conspiracy with
intent to obstruct the prosecution of the war. To be sure the
Government did not produce a single witness to show that the war had
been obstructed by their activities; but it was argued that the
agitation which they had carried on by means of speeches, articles,
pamphlets, meetings and organizing campaigns, would quite naturally
hamper the country in its war work.
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