Weekly Brecht: Questions from a Worker Who Reads

Who built the seven gates of Thebes?
The books are filled with names of kings.
Was it kings who hauled the craggy loads of stone?
And Babylon, so many times destroyed,
Who raised that city up each time?
In which of Lima's houses, glittering with gold, lived those who built it?
On the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Where did the masons go?...
Philip of Spain wept when his fleet went down.
Was there no one else who wept?
Frederick the Great won the Seven Years War.
Who won it with him?...
A victory on every page
Who cooked the victory feast?
A great man every ten years.
Who paid the costs?...