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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342929" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Confederate Flags</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tut-tut! give back the flags - how can you care,<br>You veterans and heroes?<br>Why should you at a kind intention swear<br>Like twenty Neros?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Suppose the act was not so overwise -<br>Suppose it was illegal;<br>Is't well on such a question to arise<br>And punch the Eagle?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay, let's economize his breath to scold<br>And terrify the alien<br>Who tackles him, as Hercules of old<br>The bird Stymphalian.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among the rebels when we made a breach<br>Was it to get the banners?<br>That was but incidental - 'twas to teach<br>Them better manners.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They know the lessons well enough to-day;<br>Now, let us try to show them<br>That we're not only stronger far than they,<br>(How we did mow them!)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But more magnanimous. My lads, 'tis plain<br>'Twas an uncommon riot;<br>The warlike tribes of Europe fight for gain;<br>We fought for quiet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we were victors, then we all must live<br>With the same flag above us;<br>'Twas all in vain unless we now forgive<br>And make them love us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let kings keep trophies to display above<br>Their doors like any savage;<br>The freeman's trophy is the foeman's love,<br>Despite war's ravage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Make treason odious?' My friends, you'll find<br>You can't, in right and reason,<br>While 'Washington' and 'treason' are combined -<br>'Hugo' and 'treason.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All human governments must take the chance<br>And hazard of sedition.<br>O wretch! to pledge your manhood in advance<br>To blind submission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It may be wrong, it may be right, to rise<br>In warlike insurrection:<br>The loyalty that fools so dearly prize<br>May mean subjection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be loyal to your country, yes - but how<br>If tyrants hold dominion?<br>The South believed they did; can't you allow<br>For that opinion?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He who will never rise though rulers plot,<br>His liberties despising -<br>He is he manlier than the sans-culottes<br>Who's always rising?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give back the foolish flags whose bearers fell,<br>Too valiant to forsake them.<br>Is it presumptuous, this counsel? Well,<br>I helped to take them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q>
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You veterans and heroes?
Why should you at a kind intention swear
Like twenty Neros?

Suppose the act was not so overwise -
Suppose it was illegal;
Is't well on such a question to arise
And punch th..."></div>
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