That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgement-day
And sat upright. While drearisome
Arose the howl of wakened hounds:
The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,
The worms drew back into their mounds,
The glebe-cow drooled. Till God called, `No;
It's gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be:
`All nations striving strong to make
Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters
They do no more for Christés sake
Than you that are helpless in such matters.
`That this is not the judgement-hour
For some of them's a blessed thing,
For if it were they'd have to scour
Hell's floor for so much threatening...
`Ha, ha. It will be warmer when
I blow the trumpet (if indeed
I ever do; for you are men,
And rest eternal sorely need).'
So down we lay again. `I wonder,
Will the world ever saner be,'
Said one, `than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century!'
And many a skeleton shook his head.
`Instead of preaching forty year,'
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
`I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.'
Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland as Stourton Tower,
And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.
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Vietnam Related Websites: Women
in Vietnam ~ Read about ALL the women who served . . . The
Irish on the Wall ~ An effort to locate the Irish who died in Vietnam
Tim O'Brien's Home Page ~ National Book Award
Winner and Americal Vet Emily's
Poetry ~ By a Red Cross Donut Dolly Shrapnel
in the Heart ~ The most moving book you will read on Vietnam All
About Vietnam ~ An annotated bibliography of books
about Vietnam for sale thru Amazon Worldwide! Battle
Dressing ~ Project
Hearts and Minds ~ Help put Viet Nam back together Photos
from a Holts' Military History Tour ~ My trip to Vietnam, February
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My Other Websites: 
Maybe Later . . . ~ My
Creative NonfictionIrish
in Korea ~ Irish men and women who gave their lives in the Korean War
Literature of the Korean War ~ Don't let the
literature be forgotten
Samuel Pepys ~ One of my favorite authors
Chicago Theatre Z - A ~ This is the best
theater town in the country!
Soccer Literature ~ I'm a fan and I read
O'Leary Lantern ~ Fire! Fire! Fire! Gil
Thorp ~ THE Coach (apologies to The General!)
Poetry of the First World War ~ Owen, Hardy and
others Chi-COW-go
~ Cowz plus Commentary (this used to be a cow town) Graham
Fulton, Scottish Poet ~ Charles Manson Auditions for the Monkees |
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Other Important Websites:  The
Truth About Caroline ~ a really good Young Adult
book by my niece, Stacey M. Lane Grosh Remember
Oklahoma City ~ The Civil Service and Military will NEVER
forget! Milton
L. Olive III ~ Posthumous Medal of Honor Recipient |
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