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Thread #136904   Message #3140764
Posted By: Ron Davies
22-Apr-11 - 09:48 PM
Thread Name: Banjo, Cello & Voice- any good?
Subject: RE: Banjo, Cello & Voice- any good?
No problem, Becky.   

As others have noted, you have really done some impressive research on "Reply".   I am amazed the poem comes from 1865--I would have thought bitterness from the war would not have allowed the sort of sentiment in "Reply" so soon.    It seems much more from the 1920's or so--the generalized anti-war feeling and disillusion about war--but no hate for the victors.