<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409902" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor's Fight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse,<br>More ponderous than nimble;<br>For since grimed War here laid aside<br>His painted pomp, 'twould ill befit<br>Overmuch to ply<br>The rhyme's barbaric symbol.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hail to victory without the gaud<br>Of glory; zeal that needs no fans<br>Of banners; plain mechanic power<br>Plied cogently in War now placed -<br>Where War belongs -<br>Among the trades and artisans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet this was battle, and intense -<br>Beyond the strife of fleets heroic;<br>Deadlier, closer, calm 'mid storm;<br>No passion; all went on by crank.<br>Pivot, and screw,<br>And calculations of caloric.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Needless to dwell; the story's known.<br>The ringing of those plates on plates<br>Still ringeth round the world -<br>The clangor of the blacksmiths' fray.<br>The anvil-din<br>Resounds this message from the Fates:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">War shall yet be, and to the end;<br>But war-paint shows the streaks of weather;<br>War yet shall be, but the warriors<br>Are now but operatives; War's made<br>Less grand than Peace,<br>And a singe runs through lace and feather.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herman+Melville">Herman Melville</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=409902" data-title="A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor's Fight de Herman Melville" data-description="Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, More ponderous than nimble; For since grimed War here laid aside His painted pomp, 'twould ill befit Overmuch to ply The rhyme's barbaric symbol. Hail to victory without the gaud Of glory; zeal that needs n..."></div> </div> </div>

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