Excerpt from The Assault and Other War Poems From Ardours and Endurances I have been accused in print, in conversation, in letters signed and unsigned, of militarism. It is said by those too lazy or too stupid to understand me, and by those who misinterpret for their own ends another's works, that I glorify war. I can forgive those who care so little for anything that they cannot be bothered with another's attempt at truth, but I cannot forgive those who wilfully misinterpret me. Fliers in the face of truth, perjurers, I ...
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Excerpt from The Assault and Other War Poems From Ardours and Endurances I have been accused in print, in conversation, in letters signed and unsigned, of militarism. It is said by those too lazy or too stupid to understand me, and by those who misinterpret for their own ends another's works, that I glorify war. I can forgive those who care so little for anything that they cannot be bothered with another's attempt at truth, but I cannot forgive those who wilfully misinterpret me. Fliers in the face of truth, perjurers, I do not praise war I glorify not those who make war, but those who endure it not those vices which lead to it, but those virtues which it rediscovers! Think. Con sider my generation. Am I likely to love war, more particularly this war Which generation has been most swept away 2 Those young men who were between the ages of nineteen and twenty-six when the sword was drawn. Do I not belong to that generation 3 Go you and call in the streets of the universities, citadelsof ghosts. Have I not reason to love war? Answer. 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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