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required former communists to either denounce their past radical¬
ism or suffer oblivion. Refusing to adopt the postute of either the
"penitent sinner" or the "groveling informer," Freeman recorded
his own disillusionment with past politics in a private manner. The
vast archive of his unpublished writing and correspondence, now
deposited at Columbia, confirms the quality of his mind, the vari¬
ety of his interests and the unchanging nature of his romantic and
rebellious character. He surely deserves recognition as a poet and
a thinker, a man whose story was forecast at the end of liis early
poem, "Don Quixote":

And yet, the world may laugh. Dreams never die.

To them who find, like him, no rest from strife

For that millennium .sweet Shelley sings.

To them his pathos is a living cry

That man is more than dreamless dust, and life

A glorious incongruity of things.