Tuesday, January 22, 2013

News at Eleven: This poem, typed on a manual typewriter,

begins: "Here is a revolver." It ends 11 lines later: "And nothing in human philosophy persists more strangely than the old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the most revolvers."

As [Ernie] Gullerud entered this basic information for "A Revolver," he felt compelled to read the lines in between.

"It's just amazing how something written way back then is relevant today," he said.

from University of Illinois: News Bureau: Previously unknown Sandburg poem focuses on power of the gun
then University of Illinois: A Revolver

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