Excerpt from Songs of an Airman: And Other Poems It seems at first a strange thing, this relation of poetry to war. Who can forbid the singer to sing of arms and the hero? Who will refuse to recognize the glory of sacrifice? Who is there who does not stand in amaze ment before the spectacle of youth inging away its normal future, and rushing like an athlete into the ter rible game? They live for ever who offer themselves in a great cause, and the poets sing of them, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare. Even Milton reaches his ...
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Excerpt from Songs of an Airman: And Other Poems It seems at first a strange thing, this relation of poetry to war. Who can forbid the singer to sing of arms and the hero? Who will refuse to recognize the glory of sacrifice? Who is there who does not stand in amaze ment before the spectacle of youth inging away its normal future, and rushing like an athlete into the ter rible game? They live for ever who offer themselves in a great cause, and the poets sing of them, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare. Even Milton reaches his noblest harmonies when chanting of battle. In other days this may have resulted in a glorification of war, with all its pomp and movement. And even to-day the externals of the strife may entrap the unwary artist's fancy. But below the pageant there is always the human soul; and the poet when he strikes his surest note, celebrates the unselfish devotion of men, through war, indeed if it must come, to the common weal. Canada has not yet fully felt the priceless value of expressing herself in poetry. Excuses for our short comings are offered; that we have been preparing the way, building our commercial, our national, edifice, and what not. And indeed the impartial reader of Canadian history will be disposed to grant that a very large pro portion of our ablest men have entered the public service, in some cases turning reluctantly away from the inviting field of-literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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