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Scotland
Sorry Chookie, I couldn't remember and so had to visit the bookcase. Now that I've made another mess, I can say: William Edmonstoune Aytoun, an Edinburgh man I believe (given the name, I'm not surprised I couldn't remember!). 
Okay, here's another.
'All the same, I am no pessimist. I stick to the view I have always held that Hitler missed the bus in Sept 1938. He could have dealt France and ourselves a terrible, perhaps a mortal, blow then.'
Okay, here's another.
'All the same, I am no pessimist. I stick to the view I have always held that Hitler missed the bus in Sept 1938. He could have dealt France and ourselves a terrible, perhaps a mortal, blow then.'
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Nebraska
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Nebraska
Well, that "missed the bus" thing was thrown in his face for a long time after, right?
And now for something completely different -
"And now," said he, "since it is resolved among you that you will die, come on, let us commit our mutual deaths to determination by lot. He whom the lot falls to first, let him be killed by him that hath the second lot, and thus fortune shall make its progress through us all; nor shall any of us perish by his own right hand, for it would be unfair if, when the rest were gone, somebody should repent and save himself. This proposal appeared to them to be very just;"
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Alba
There are many dead in the brutish desert,
who lie uneasy
in the scrub in this landscape of half-wit
stunted ill-will. For the dead land is insatiate
and necrophilious. The sand is blowing about still.
Many who for various reasons, or because
of mere unanswerable compulsion, came here
and fought among clutching gravestones,
shivered and sweated,
cried out, suffered thirst, were stoically silent, cursed
the spittering machine-guns, were homesick for Europe
and fast embedded in quicksand of Africa
agonised and died.
And sleep now. Sleep here the sleep of the dust.
who lie uneasy
in the scrub in this landscape of half-wit
stunted ill-will. For the dead land is insatiate
and necrophilious. The sand is blowing about still.
Many who for various reasons, or because
of mere unanswerable compulsion, came here
and fought among clutching gravestones,
shivered and sweated,
cried out, suffered thirst, were stoically silent, cursed
the spittering machine-guns, were homesick for Europe
and fast embedded in quicksand of Africa
agonised and died.
And sleep now. Sleep here the sleep of the dust.
Author and title please.
Joined Nov 2007
7,628 Posts | 9+
Alba
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Sodom and Begorrah
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