<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400050" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>War and peace (in answer to Virgil and C. Day Lewis)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Impartially the hand of Odin <br>came down<br>in rage and thunder<br>among mere men, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">blazing agony on either side of them, <br>on a war torn front<br>without retreat envisioned, <br>but the pressing feeding of the guns<br>with men as the fodder</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and politicians could not bother<br>about the mounting casualties, the agonies<br>of men wounded, dying and killed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and reporting back the black ravens <br>Huginn and Muninn<br>brought terrible tidings <br>at the court of Valhalla, <br>of the pointless fury of men<br>on one another </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in Valhalla <br>memory and thought brought empathy<br>in the hearts of all gods, <br>to the extend that they had great pity<br>for the pointlessness and savagery of war</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and before long they wished for peace, <br>but man would have nothing of it<br>until the last soldier was slaughtered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: Virgil, Aeneid X, translated by C. Day Lewis. “According to Norse / Anglo-Saxon / German mythology Odin / Odhinn / Woden / Wodan / Woutan is the king of all the gods and the god of war who holds court in Valhalla, where all brave warriors go after death in battle. His two black ravens Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory) flies daily to gather tidings of world wide events.” ]</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=400050" data-title="War and peace (in answer to Virgil and C. Day Lewis) de Gert Strydom" data-description="Impartially the hand of Odin came down in rage and thunder among mere men, blazing agony on either side of them, on a war torn front without retreat envisioned, but the pressing feeding of the guns with men as the fodder and politicians coul..."></div> </div> </div>

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