[Peace] Peace List // Two timely poems about war

[MartyneConrad Wetzel]

Dear friends,
 
Here are two well-known and still very timely poems about the horrors of war.
 
In peace and friendship,
Conrad Wetzel
217-390-9246
mc-wetzel at hotmail.com
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The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
 So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and strops,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. 
 
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
 
Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen
 
SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES
 
I knew a simple soldier boy 
Who grinned at life in empty joy, 
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, 
And whistled early with the lark. 
In winter trenches, cowed and glum, 
With crumps and lice and lack of rum, 
He put a bullet through his brain. 
No one spoke of him again. 
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye 
Who cheer when soldier lads march by, 
Sneak home and pray you'll never know 
The hell where youth and laughter go.
 
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jsassoon.htm
 
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