I've always felt extremely saddened by this poem. Not because of its elegiac references to the far too many who have fallen in war - but because of the last verse, especially its first line. If each generation keeps "tak(ing) up (their) quarrel with the foe", there will never be an end to war...
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Date: 2007-11-11 11:23 pm (UTC)