Voltairine De Cleyre's 1898 poem "Santa Agueda", which chronicles the 1897 death of the premier of Spain, assassinated by an Italian anarchist

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it was retribution for atrocities committed by the Spanish government against anarchists.

"Santa Agueda, thou that wast accursed
With presence of a demon dressed in Man,
Blessed art thou, for on thy stones there ran
The vampire blood from bitter torture nursed;
Along thy streets there flashed the lightning-burst,
“Delivered!” flaming on from eye to eye,
Though lips said “killed,” and all thy gateways
hearsed
In lying black, made mourning mockery.
Blessed art thou! From thee went forth the cry,
“Vengeance yet loves, Renunciation hates,
And justice smites: the torturer shall die;”
Across his path the steel-nerved slayer waits
“And both shall burn together,” — one in light
Of unconsuming hell and reddened night;
And one with feet on hell and brow dawn-rayed, pure
white."

Collected Poems

Voltairine de Cleyre Collected Poems

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Anarchism stands for social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations