<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414950" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Without Just Cause.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My maiden aunt had little chance.<br>Because the man she was to wed<br>Was one of those who fell in France <br>listed as missing presumed dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her happiness a casualty<br> which never figured in the news<br>She had to face reality<br> a future which she did not choose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was condemned to life alone<br>Because so many young men died<br>all chance of motherhood was gone.<br> She bore her fate with stoic pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She helped to raise her sister’s brood.<br> Her husband too unfit to go.<br> She mothered them as best she could<br> the only joy she’d ever know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was a treasure left unclaimed<br> a mother she would never be.<br>Only the Great War could be blamed <br>for many women’s misery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She lived to see a ripe old age.<br> She died in nineteen forty one<br> just long enough to see the stage<br> prepared for another one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another war to end all wars<br> Just as the first Great War had been.<br>To her it was a hopeless cause<br> she saw the slaughter as obscene.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young men will answer to the call<br> but womenfolk are left behind<br>To mourn their menfolk when they fall<br>A fate that’s very far from kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think that she was glad to go<br> she knew from hard experience.<br>What other girls would come to know <br>when sorrow takes up residence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">20-Jan-08</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=414950" data-title="Without Just Cause. de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="My maiden aunt had little chance. Because the man she was to wed Was one of those who fell in France listed as missing presumed dead. Her happiness a casualty which never figured in the news She had to face reality a future which she did not c..."></div> </div> </div>

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