<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407905" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Songs of Battle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old as the world--no other things so old; <br>Nay, older than the world, else, how had sprung <br>Such lusty strength in them when earth was young?-- <br>Stand valor and its passion hot and bold, <br>Insatiate of battle. How, else, told <br>Blind men, born blind, that red was fitting tongue <br>Mute, eloquent, to show how trumpets rung <br>When armies charged adn battle-flags unfurled? <br>Who sings of valor speaks for life, for death, <br>Beyond all death, and long as life is life, <br>in rippled waves the eternal air hs breath <br>Eternal bears to stir all noble strife. <br>Dead Homer from his lost and vanished grave <br>Keeps battle glorious still and soldiers brave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Helen+Hunt+Jackson">Helen Hunt Jackson</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=407905" data-title="Songs of Battle de Helen Hunt Jackson" data-description="Old as the world--no other things so old; Nay, older than the world, else, how had sprung Such lusty strength in them when earth was young?-- Stand valor and its passion hot and bold, Insatiate of battle. How, else, told Blind men, born blind..."></div> </div> </div>

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