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[KT2000]

1. Robert Penn Warren

[ After a litany of disappointments, betrays, and grief, he concludes with this ]

....Until you

Remember surprisingly that

common men have done good deeds.

Until it

Grows on you that, at least, God
Has allowed us the

grandeur of certain utterances.

[LuckyCharms]

2. Thank you, KT2000

[debm55]

3. Beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing with us, LuckyCharms.

[calimary]

4. GREAT one!

Thanks for posting it, LuckyCharms!

[Figarosmom]

5. Thank you, always liked this one😊

[Donkees]

6. To be a 'Man' in prewar England was to maneuver inside an armored suit of gender conventions.

To be a “Man” in prewar England was to maneuver inside an armored suit of gender conventions. To be Rudyard Kipling’s son was to be trapped in a generational tragedy.

He’d never fought in the trenches himself, but “when the drums [began] to roll” for the Great War, he helped John march—pulling strings to maneuver his eager but severely myopic son past the army’s eyesight requirements. John went missing in the Battle of Loos in 1915 and was confirmed dead two years later.

As a celebrity author, Kipling remained an official booster of the war; as a grieving father, he sank into a deep bitterness. “Kipling spent the later part of his life in sulking,” wrote Orwell, whose essay never mentions John’s death. “Somehow history had not gone according to plan.”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/70303/iffy

[quaint]

7. Nope, nope, nope. "The White Man's Burden" too much.