Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RIVAL SCHOOLS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON First Line: Trained in the ways of blood and iron Last Line: "urged on by ""high-born"" power?" Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
TRAINED in the ways of blood and iron, Trained to a mail-glove rule, The field-gray legions face the lads Taught in a different school! Trained through the years to think a "Von" Ranks as a mighty god, Trained to bow low and crouch before A noble's spurring prod. Welded in one obedient mass, Autocracy's dumb slaves, The gray-clad lines rush madly on, In endless, hurtling waves! But those who calmly meet the charge, And mow the myriads down, Were never taught to bow the knee For noble, "Von" or crown! Trained in the school of equal right, Who hopes to make them cower Before a sturing mass of slaves Urged on by "high-born" power? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A FOOL THERE WAS by WILLIAM A. PHELON |
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