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Because after nine years and change, I think a certain measure of cynicism is justified.



Not yet will those measureless fields be green again
Where only yesterday the wild sweet blood of wonderful youth was shed;
There is a grave whose earth must hold too long, too deep a stain,
Though for ever over it we may speak proudly as we tread.
But here, where the watchers by lonely hearths from the thrust of an inward sword have more slowly bled,
We shall build the Cenotaph: Victory, winged, with Peace winged too, at the column's head.
And over the stairway, at the foot - oh! here, leave desolate, passionate hands to spread
Violets, roses, and laurel, with the small, sweet, twinkling country things,
Speaking so wistfully of other Springs,
From the little gardens of little places where son or sweetheart was born and bred.
In splendid sleep, with a thousand brothers
To lovers - to mothers
Here, too, lies he:
Under the purple, the green, the red,
It is all young life: it must break some women's hearts to see
Such a brave, gay coverlet to such a bed!
Only, when all is done and said,
God is not mocked, and neither are the dead.
For this will stand in our Market-place -
Who'll sell, who'll buy
(Will you or I
Lie to each other with better grace)?
While looking into every busy whore's and huckster's face
As they drive their bargains, is the Face
Of God: and some young, piteous, murdered face.

Date: 2010-11-14 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-t-rain.livejournal.com
No, Charlotte Mew's. (Didn't I put her name in the LJ cut text? I thought I did.)

Date: 2010-11-14 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] easleyweasley.livejournal.com
You did.

Charlotte Mew
Is new
To me.

Date: 2010-11-15 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-t-rain.livejournal.com
Oh, right, I'd forgotten that it isn't necessarily obvious that my name isn't Charlotte Mew. (This is the point in the semester when I don't necessarily have two brain cells to rub together ...)

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