(Hat tip) "Let the Earth Bear Witness" is a video tribute to the struggle for freedom of the Iranians -- the awe-inspiring masses who protested and risked their lives to speak out against what they believe to be a fraudulent election -- performed by the Waterboys' Dublin singer, Mike Scott. The stirring words written in 1901 by one of my favorite poets, William Butler Yeats, reminded me of when I visited Gettysburg. I felt that indeed the wind and the earth and the stars were bearing witness to the dead soldiers there, and they would be remembered forever; they would be alive forever; they would be speaking forever; and "people shall hear them forever."
As Scott says, "I took the words from two old Yeats poems, in which he was writing about Irish freedom fighters. But his words apply to any freedom fighters, anytime, anywhere in the world."
There is a mournful tone to this song that I have to admit I'm not quite ready to accept, because I'm still hopeful that, despite brutal repression, the cause of freedom for the Iranian people is not completely lost.
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