<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508292" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Don't Cheer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't cheer, damn you! Don't cheer!<br>Silence! Your bitterest tear<br>Is fulsomely sweet to-day. . . .<br>Down on your knees and pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See, they sing as they go,<br>Marching row upon row.<br>Who will be spared to return,<br>Sombre and starkly stern?<br>Chaps whom we knew - s0 strange,<br>Distant and dark with change;<br>Silent as those they slew,<br>Something in them dead too.<br>Who will return this way,<br>To sing as they sing to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Send to the glut of the guns<br>Bravest and best of you sons.<br>Hurl a million to slaughter,<br>Blood flowing like Thames water;<br>Pile up pyramid high<br>Your dead to the anguished sky;<br>A monument down all time<br>Of hate and horror and crime.<br>Weep, rage, pity, curse, fear -<br>Anything, but . . . don't cheer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sow to the ploughing guns<br>Seed of your splendid sons.<br>Let your heroic slain<br>Richly manure the plain.<br>What will the harvest be?<br>Unborn of Unborn will see. . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dark is the sky and drear. . . .<br>For the pity of God don't cheer.<br>Dark and dread is their way.<br>Who sing as they march to-day. . . .<br>Humble your hearts and pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508292" data-title="Don't Cheer de Robert William Service" data-description="Don't cheer, damn you! Don't cheer! Silence! Your bitterest tear Is fulsomely sweet to-day. . . . Down on your knees and pray. See, they sing as they go, Marching row upon row. Who will be spared to return, Sombre and starkly stern? Chaps whom we..."></div> </div> </div>

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