[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford279","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 May 31st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford279","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford279","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford279.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffFox in Sicily\n\nWhenever Fox unfolds a map of Europe\nHis eyes are drawn to burning Sicily,\nThat foot wrenched from Italy's leg\nHe visited the Island long ago\nTo meet a man some thought a bandit\nBut others called a Robin Hood.\n\nGiuliano does not rob the poor.\u201d -\nThis was the notice pinned upon the chest\nOf a dead follower who broke the rules;\nThe man had robbed a peasant.\nIn the name of God and Sicily\nGiuliano once killed a shopkeeper\nwho grossly overcharged on loans.\n\nKidnapper,murderer, he had said;\n\"I can look after my enemies,\nBut God protect me from my friends.\"\nHe was betrayed to death at 27.\n\nFox has spoken of a secret meeting\nWhere he transacted business\nith the man described as molto sincero,\nMolto bello and gentilissimo.\nFox could not fault him\nIn the courtesies of trading.\n\nHe told me how Sicilians think\nThat Giuliano sleeps among the mountains,\nTheir one-time and their future King\nLike Arthur of our knightly Camelot.\n\nThe Captain gave me this advice;\n\"If ever you should visit Sicily\nJust act the package tourist.\n\nDon't prod the sleeping lion!\"\n\nBobert Greacen\nMay 1977\n","Type":"Text"}}]