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Senna, whose story is featured in Girl Rising's Peru chapter, performs one of her favorite poems, "Masses," by Cesar Vellejo at home.
When the battle was over, and the warrior dead, a man came to him and said: "Don't die; I love you so much!"
But the corpse - ai! - kept on dying. Two drew near him, and repeated: "Don't leave us! Corage! Come to life again!"
But the corpse -ai!- kept on dying. Twenty turned to him, a hundred, a thousand, half a million, shouting: "So much love, so powerless against death!"
Millions of individuals surrounded him with a common plea, "Stay, brother!"
But the corpse -ai!- kept on dying. Then all the people of the earth surrounded him; the sad corpse gazed at them, touched;
slowly he sat up; embraced the first man; began to walk...
One girl with courage is a revolution
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