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# To Clio
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/to-clio/
- Published: 2021-07-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Oh Clio, Clio, why do we not learn Repeating our mistakes as if we’re blind As if a curse afflicting human kind Makes us reject the past at every turn
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Oh Clio, Clio, why do we not learn  
Repeating our mistakes as if we’re blind  
As if a curse afflicting human kind  
Makes us reject the past at every turn

Your wisdom is our guidance and our light  
Absorbing it, we grow from year to year  
Then why is it that so many do fear  
What’s written in our books in black and white

Dear goddess, Clio, help us lift their veil!  
And make them see the lessons of the past  
Their narrow minds released, and free at last  
And History, unshackled will prevail!

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**Author notes:** wc 94 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783458-The-Nine-Muses