<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414809" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Turning point for Friend Thad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The piercing arrows driven by<br>the power of a yew long bow.<br>Would change the course of history<br>As peasants laid the mailed knights low.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aristocrats had hitherto<br> Been protected by plate mail.<br>Now thanks to English bows of Yew.<br>Their sure defence was doomed to fail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Agincourt the French knights found<br>The could be slain like common men.<br>The change this made was so profound<br>That war would never be the same again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although the knights thought it unfair<br> and lacking in all chivalry.<br>The English bowmen did not care<br> and slew the hated cavalry</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Who in the past had cut them down <br>like ripened grain without a thought.<br>Now that advantage overthrown<br>their charges were reduced to naught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A commoner could kill a Lord<br>Whilst he still too far away<br> to use his lance or his long sword<br>The English archers won the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rules of war were re arranged.<br>The bowman proved decisively.<br>The art of war forever changed.<br>The start of modern history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men could kill men now distantly<br> and very quickly gained in skill<br> To kill much more efficiently.<br>A skill men are improving still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man has progressed until today<br>He has the skill but lacks the will<br> to try and find a better way.<br>To settle disputes than to kill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">03/06/2009<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=414809" data-title="Turning point for Friend Thad de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="The piercing arrows driven by the power of a yew long bow. Would change the course of history As peasants laid the mailed knights low. Aristocrats had hitherto Been protected by plate mail. Now thanks to English bows of Yew. Their sure defence w..."></div> </div> </div>

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