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 good time!" And their books? The books and the youth together make the future. And what do the books say? Exactly the same as the youth: "Let us have a good time! Ours are the light and the lust of life, its colors and its joys!" That's what the youth and their books say.—They are right! It is all theirs! There is no law to prevent their taking life's sunlight and joy away from the poor people. For those who have the sun have also made the law.—But then the next question is whether we might not scramble up high enough to take part in the writing of a new law. (This is received with thundering cheers.) What is needed is that one generation makes an effort strong enough to raise all coming generations into the vigorous life of full sunlight.


 * —Yes, yes!

the next one. Until at last our turn has come—to bear sacrifices and sufferings like unto those of death itself!
 * —But so far every generation has put it off on

Weavers

(See page 97)

Their eyelids are drooping, no tears lie beneath; They stand at the loom and grind their teeth; "We are weaving a shroud for the doubly dead, And a threefold curse in its every thread—   We are weaving, still weaving.

"A curse for the Godhead to whom we have bowed In our cold and our hunger, we weave in the shroud; For in vain have we hoped and in vain have prayed; He has mocked us and scoffed at us, sold and betrayed—   We are weaving, still weaving.