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'''Lenin''' is a poem about [[Vladimir Lenin]] by [[Langston Hughes]]. It goes like this:
'''Lenin''' is a poem about [[Vladimir Lenin]] by [[Langston Hughes]]. It goes like this:
 
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"Lenin walks around the world.  
|text=Lenin walks around the world.<br> Frontiers cannot bar him.<br> Neither barracks nor barricades impede.<br> Nor does barbed wire scar him.<br> <br> Lenin walks around the world.<br> Black, brown, and white receive him.<br> Language is no barrier.<br> The strangest tongues believe him.<br> <br> Lenin walks around the world.<br> The sun sets like a scar.<br> Between the darkness and the dawn<br> There rises a red star.}}
Frontiers cannot bar him.  
 
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.  
 
Nor does barbed wire scar him.
 
 
Lenin walks around the world.  
 
Black, brown, and white receive him.  
 
Language is no barrier.  
 
The strangest tongues believe him.
 
 
Lenin walks around the world.  
 
The sun sets like a scar.  
 
Between the darkness and the dawn  
 
There rises a red star."

Revision as of 20:53, 4 April 2023

Lenin is a poem about Vladimir Lenin by Langston Hughes. It goes like this:

Lenin walks around the world.
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
Nor does barbed wire scar him.

Lenin walks around the world.
Black, brown, and white receive him.
Language is no barrier.
The strangest tongues believe him.

Lenin walks around the world.
The sun sets like a scar.
Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star.