<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357872" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Faith of Old George Jones</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">War raged around this troubled world,<br> When I was but a lad,<br>And into battle men were hurled,<br>As some ambition mad<br>Moved kings on their unstable thrones<br>To bring the world unease.<br>Mad days, I'll grant (said old George Jones),<br>But not as mad as these.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They fought for power, fought for gain,<br>For land and plunder then;<br>They fought for ends that they made plain<br>And understood of men.<br>But in this strangely restless age,<br>And this world's changing scene,<br>Men fight and die while nations rage,<br> For visions half unseen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They fight for theories untried,<br>Ideals, untested creeds,<br>And seek their ends thro' fratricide,<br>While hate's rank passion breeds.<br>On this red soil . . . Must I, a man<br>Unlettered, pierce the mist,<br>And bind myself so to some strange plan <br>Fascist or Socialist?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a man. It is enough.<br>I ply a peaceful trade.<br>What should I know of this queer stuff<br>Of which their dreams are made?<br>Small is the wisdom mankind owns,<br>But, as his knowledge grows,<br>It seems to me (said old George Jones),<br>His hard-won wisdom goes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357872" data-title="The Faith of Old George Jones de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="War raged around this troubled world, When I was but a lad, And into battle men were hurled, As some ambition mad Moved kings on their unstable thrones To bring the world unease. Mad days, I'll grant (said old George Jones), But not as mad as the..."></div> </div> </div>

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