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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Only Mules</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The submarine was quite within its rights in sinking the cargo of the Armenian,—1,422 mules valued at $191,400.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>No matter; we are only mules <br>And slow to understand<br>We drown according to the rules<br>Of war, we contraband <br>War reckons us as shot and shell,<br>As so much metal lost.<br>And mourns the dollars gone to swell<br>The monstrous bill of cost.<br>Would that we had been wrought of steel<br>And not of quivering flesh!<br>Of iron, not of nerves that feel,<br>And maddened limbs that thresh<br>The sucking seas in stubborn strife<br>For that dim right of ours<br>To what no factory fashions, life,<br>No Edison endowers.<br>Our last wild screams are choked; you know<br>It does not matter, for<br>We're only mules that suffered so,<br>And contraband of war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Lee+Bates">Katharine Lee Bates</a><div class=q>
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No matter; we are only mules 
And slow to understand
We drown according to the rules
Of war, we contraband 
War reckons us as sho..."></div>
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