<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398335" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I saw young men, boys just out of school (Villanelle)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw young men, boys just out of school, <br>working men with university degrees<br>far too clever to be any anyone’s fool</div><div style="margin:10px 0">being called up for war, being tossed into its whirlpool<br>set on fire and burning like a bunch of trees.<br>I saw young men, boys just out of school, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">who over war did not drool<br>but hated every moment of it, men with great qualities<br>far too clever to be anyone’s fool</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who’s lives were threaded out like from a spool, <br>treated like mere sediment, dregs, refuse, like lees.<br>I saw young men, boys just out of school, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in places flaming hot, icy cold wearing jerseys of wool, <br>praying, standing in the wilderness on their knees<br>far too clever to be any anyone’s fool</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with pierced bodies draining in bloody pool after bloody pool<br>becoming the sons of Cain, the devils own employees<br>and I saw young men, boys just out of school, <br>far too clever to be any anyone’s fool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=398335" data-title="I saw young men, boys just out of school (Villanelle) de Gert Strydom" data-description="I saw young men, boys just out of school, working men with university degrees far too clever to be any anyone’s fool being called up for war, being tossed into its whirlpool set on fire and burning like a bunch of trees. I saw young men, boys ..."></div> </div> </div>

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