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

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    1 year ago

    Like how a dude penned “In Flanders’ Fields” in WW1, and Canada lost every war since. /s