Your name and your deeds were forgotten
Before your bones were dry,

And the lie that slew you is buried

Under a deeper lie;

But the thing that I saw in your face

No power can disinherit:

No bomb that ever burst

Shatters the crystal spirit.
~

Taken from ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’, published by New Road, 1943. Poem written 1939

~george Orwell~