Tuesday 21 December 2010

A Christmas Carol For Peace

From Rudyard Kipling:


God rest you, merry gentlemen, and keep you in your mirth!

Was ever kingdom turned so soon to ashes, blood, and earth?

'Twixt the summer and the snow-seeding-time and frost

Arms and victual, hope and counsel, name and country lost!

Singing:--


Let down by the foot and the head
Shovel and smooth it all!
So do we bury a Nation dead 
And who shall be next to fall, good sirs,
With your good help to fall?

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