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Thread #56811   Message #891041
Posted By: Deda
15-Feb-03 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: Lest we forget (Masters of War)
Subject: RE: Lest we forget
Thank you for posting these words, especially Dylan's extraordinary lyrics. Here is the final verse of Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" (1867)

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.