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Subject: Re: PPP: Men Who March Away / Thomas Hardy
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:39:51 +0000
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 by: General-Zod - Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:39 UTC

George J. Dance wrote:

>
>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> Men Who March Away, by Thomas Hardy
>> .
>> What of the faith and fire within us
>>         Men who march away
>>         Ere the barn-cocks say
>>         Night is growing gray,
>> [...]
>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/11/men-who-march-away-thomas-hardy.html
>>

> Thanks for finding and bumping it, Zod. I just found it this weekend,
> and I thought it was perfect for its place. As far as I know, it's
> Hardy's only patriotic poem; most of the stuff I've read, like "The
> Christmas Ghost" on PPB, is very anti-war. But while the pro-war
> rhetoric stuff isn't my cup of tea, it has to be acknowledged as
> reality: Hardy's poem, as well as Pope's, probably best sum up the
> sentiments of the English soldiers going off to war at the beginning.

Still excellent....!

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