[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 130 (Tuesday, September 25, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1655]
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                          DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI

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                          HON. JOSEPH CROWLEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 25, 2012

  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit this poem in honor 
of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who was presented with the Congressional Gold 
Medal, on September 19, 2012.
  This is a poem written by Albert Carey Caswell.

                           The Daw of Freedom

     The. . .
     The Daw of Freedom. . .
     On this day. . .

     As from across the oceans,
     your courage so reaches out to all of us in so many ways!

     As a Freedom Fighter,
     whose fine heart so all ignites us in so many ways!

     All in your struggle for democracy and human rights this,
     all in what your peaceful fight has so conveyed!
     As over the years,
     as we have all so watched you all so here,
     and for you Daw Suu have all so prayed!

     As all in such awe,
     at what we so saw. . .
     all in what your courage against such oppression so had to 
           say!

     Just like all of those great Freedom Fighters who have so 
           come before,
     names like Gandhi and King who through non violence had so 
           implored!

     Happiness, Democracy and Freedom for all the more!
     As now your gifts this,
     now stands etched in Woman and Mankind forevermore!
     and with that presentation of your Noble Peace Prize,
     you but brought such tears to our eyes!

     For Burma has but a bright future so ahead,
     as long as she so listens to what Champions of Freedom,
     like you Daw Suu have so said!

     So on this day,
     we kneel and pray. . . all in respect for that great battle 
           you so wage!

     As upon you this Gold Medal we now so place. . .
     As your fine life has but brought such light to even the 
           darkest of all days. . .
     As now we so march with you all in our hearts and souls,
     all in this your great battle and crusade that we behold!

     Of your life and your times,
     and your great quest for freedom and her rhymes,
     of this all of our children must be told!

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