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10 Beware then of monuments self-erected, Be they in print or in stone, For only posterity real monuments erects, And those, for eternity last. The Unknown Soldier When brave men die and cowards live, And cowards live to write history, They proclaim themselves brave men, And the brave, the Unknown Soldier. We know the brave, they fought for us, The mosquito is one, the tse-tse fly the other, Their skeletons litter the marshy jungles, They never knew the microphone. This monument we raise in their honour, The sources of Republics and Empires, Tread softly, thou visiting head, Honour the dead, and not thy host. To The Youth of Africa Third World is a euphemism, Underdeveloped, an insult, Developing, a challenge, And developed the goal. Place then yourself in this, And your attitude x-ray, ...

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