Remembering Those Who Fell
Nov. 11th, 2011 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceitfiannaAs I was looking at poems on this Veterans' Day, I found one I hadn't seen before that struck me and so I'm going to post it. I think it's worth putting here along with my other media places as I want to remember it and connect it to today.
On Being Asked For A War Poem by William Butler Yeats
I think it better that in times like these
A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right;
He has had enough of medding who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
Or an old man upon a winter's night.
I think it better that in times like these
A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right;
He has had enough of medding who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
Or an old man upon a winter's night.
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