Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Politics and the the POET... People ~ Opportunity ~ Eternal ~ Truth ... ever the call... ever the claim... Rose Marie Raccioppi



With power
Noble light and deed
Live we Freedom's creed
The ravages of suppression 
Known and heard
So from the heart of Freedom 
Came each word
Declarations so marked 
To portray
That man free of oppression 
Be the chosen way
In Freedom’s light 
And with Freedom’s call
Dignity of expression 
A right granted all
And if with doubt 
A query new
A forum open 
For a challenged view
Hold these words 
As Freedom’s choice
Let not TRUTH be a silenced voice.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York



The marble figures and fountains on either side of the main portico entrance of the New York City Public Library Main Branch, by Frederick MacMonnies, were installed in 1921.

On the right (north) is Truth, a man seated on a Sphinx, the form associated with Wisdom. Above the figure is an inscription from the Apocrypha (1 Esdras, chapter 3): 
BUT ABOVE ALL THINGS / TRUTH / BEARETH AWAY / THE VICTORY.



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