<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419979" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dark Victory 11/11/18</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Bells ring out great Peals of joy.<br>The war is won, Great Albion.<br>It merely cost a million dead, <br>a generation lost and done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To you, fate tendered victory sweet, <br>to the Germans, a bitter peace.<br>There, fatherless boys, abed, asleep, <br>plot revenge for their deceased.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the Wilfred Owen house; <br>no alloyed joy to meld with sorrow: <br>That day they learned their son had died<br>They'll dress the house in Black tomorrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His mother knew before word came, <br>she had a sense her son was gone.<br>That he'd be among the last to fall<br>for the glory of Great Albion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He fought almost unto the end, <br>dying in the war's last week.<br>When Mortal flesh and bullets meet<br>Poets are silenced when machine guns speak..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a pathos in his fate, <br>dying in the last week of war<br>Like the man who sailed the Ocean deep, <br>only to drown in sight of shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poet Wilfred Owen, died in an attack on a German Machine gun nest on 11/04/1918, one week before the Germans sued for peace. His parents received word that their only son had died just as the Church bells were rung to celebrate the Armistice. Albion is a archaic name for Great Britain</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</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=419979" data-title="Dark Victory 11/11/18 de John F. McCullagh" data-description="The Bells ring out great Peals of joy. The war is won, Great Albion. It merely cost a million dead, a generation lost and done. To you, fate tendered victory sweet, to the Germans, a bitter peace. There, fatherless boys, abed, asleep, plot rev..."></div> </div> </div>

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