<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410470" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The War In The Air</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead, <br>Who rarely bothered coming home to die <br>But simply stayed away out there <br>In the clean war, the war in the air. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seldom the ghosts come back bearing their tales <br>Of hitting the earth, the incompressible sea, <br>But stayed up there in the relative wind, <br>Shades fading in the mind, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who had no graves but only epitaphs <br>Where never so many spoke for never so few: <br>Per ardua, said the partisans of Mars, <br>Per aspera, to the stars. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That was the good war, the war we won <br>As if there was no death, for goodness's sake. <br>With the help of the losers we left out there <br>In the air, in the empty air.</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=410470" data-title="The War In The Air de Howard Nemerov" data-description="For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead, Who rarely bothered coming home to die But simply stayed away out there In the clean war, the war in the air. Seldom the ghosts come back bearing their tales Of hitting the earth, the incompressibl..."></div> </div> </div>

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