What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons…
– Wilfred Owen
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons…
– Wilfred Owen
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools” –
ThucydidesSir William Francis ButlerTommy should be happy they’re writing poetry on aircraft carriers.
This is mis-attributed.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides#Misattributed
I’ll edit it then