Hangmen

Notes)) Revolutionaries knew quite well that the autocratic Empire, with its hangmen, its pogroms, its finery, its famines, its Siberian jails and ancient iniquity

guns, And rolled her with its flag In the clay. And the mud of the fat hangmen thought they had prevailed. And with all that, Nicolas, The Commune is

of “poets and thinkers” (Dichter und Denker) to a nation of “judges and hangmen” (Richter und Henker). Germany threw the world into turmoil and global

mouth was fringed with hair, All pricks might find a haven there. Till hangmen loathed a boy so common. And dead cart men preferred a woman. When gamahuche

The French Revolution... resembled more a convention of inquisitors and hangmen than it did an assembly of enlightened emancipators. ...After twenty years