<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410448" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On an Occasion of National Mourning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is admittedly difficult for a whole<br>Nation to mourn and be seen to do so, but<br>It can be done, the silvery platitudes<br>Were waiting in their silos for just such<br>An emergent occasion, cards of sympathy<br>From heads of state were long ago prepared<br>For launching and are bounced around the world<br>From satellites at near the speed of light,<br>The divine services are telecast<br>From the home towns, children are interviewed<br>And say politely, gravely, how sorry they are,<br>And in a week or so the thing is done,<br>The sea gives up its bits and pieces and<br>The investigating board pinpoints the cause<br>By inspecting bits and pieces, nothing of the sort<br>Can ever happen again, the prescribed course<br>Of tragedy is run through omen to amen<br>As in a play, the nation rises again<br>Reborn of grief and ready to seek the stars;<br>Remembering the shuttle, forgetting the loom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</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=410448" data-title="On an Occasion of National Mourning de Howard Nemerov" data-description="It is admittedly difficult for a whole Nation to mourn and be seen to do so, but It can be done, the silvery platitudes Were waiting in their silos for just such An emergent occasion, cards of sympathy From heads of state were long ago prepared Fo..."></div> </div> </div>

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