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Originally Posted by orlok
Are we allowed poems?
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Why shouldn't we? Great idea! Let's have poems.
Here's Eva Gore-Booth's take (published in 1918) on the Irish Easter Rising. As a pacifist, she didn't believe in the violent means, but very much in the goal of the Rising. Moreover, her sister Constance had been one of the leaders of the rebellion and was now in prison. So here we have six brilliant lines of ambivalence:
EASTER WEEK
Grief for the noble dead
Of one who did not share their strife,
And mourned that any blood was shed,
Yet felt the broken glory of their state,
Their strange heroic questioning of Fate
Ribbon with gold the rags of this our life.