Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 After Romney's comment in last nights debate and Obama's Military cut proposials I thought this approate. 60 of you read "Eternal Peace" but nobody has guessed the author. This one if from the same author, any guesses??? Valor When all the hearts are opened And all the secrets known When guile and lies are banished And subterfuge is gone When God rolls up the curtain And hidden truths appear When the ghastly light of Judgement Day Brings past and present near… Then shall we know what once we knew Before wealth dimmed our sight That of all the sins, the blackest is The pride which will not fight. The meek and pious have a place And necessary are, But valor pales their puny rays As does the sun a star. What race of man since time began Has ever yet remained Who trusted not his own right hand Or from brave deeds refrained? Yet, despite the fact for ages known And by all lands displayed We still have those who prate of peace And say that war is dead. Yes, vandals rise who seek to snatch The laurels from the brave And dare defame heroic dead Now filling hero graves They speak of those who love, Like Christ’s, exceeds the lust of life As murderers slane to no avail A useless sacrifice. With infamy without a name They mock our fighting youth And dare decry great hearts who die Battling for right and truth. Woe to the land which, heading them, Lets avarice gain the day And trusting gold its rights to hold Lets manly might decay. Let us, while willing yet for peace, Still keep out valor high So when our time of battle comes We shall not fear to die. Make love of life and ease be less Make love of country more So shall our patriotism be More than an empty roar. For death is nothing, Comfortless Valor is all in all Base nations who depart from it Shall sure and justly fall. Bugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 That would be ole Blood & Guts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Indeed it is. Not many have read his stuff. You sir impress me with your range of knowledge. Bugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Indeed it is. Not many have read his stuff. You sir impress me with your range of knowledge. Bugs I am a deep font of useless information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Thanks to those who served, sacrificed, and made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country....you are honored in this civilian's eyes!! GG ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 I am a deep font of useless information. I'm generally pretty deep in it myself. Bugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tennessee Stud, SASS# 43634 Life Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I've always liked Patton's poems... Mainly... "Through a Glass, Darkly"... "Absolute War".... and "The Moon and The Dead"... Lately... I like Kiplings verses... on warfare... or otherwise... Been readin' his intense verses on man's interactions with man... or horses... From... "Plain Tales From the Hills"... THE CONVERSION OF AURELIANMcGOGGIN Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel. But, once in a way, there will come a day When the colt must be taught to feel The lash that falls, and the curb that galls, and the sting of the rowelled steel. ~Life’s Handicap I know, it sounds silly... but I happen to read alot... sometimes campfire chat goes downhill real fast... and readin' is the only cure. ts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Stand back! I'm channeling! When you're drunken and poor on the old Saloon floor And bottles says,"Pard, you best head for the door Just crawl to the bar stool and order one more. And pass out stone cold like a Cowboy. Utah Kipling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tennessee Stud, SASS# 43634 Life Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Son of a Gun! ts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 :lol: Good 'en Mr. UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 OK smarties try this one on for size Truth, they say is stranger than fiction Though personally I prefer friction The long and the short Of my favorite sport Is trying to improve my...Diction Bugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tennessee Stud, SASS# 43634 Life Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 OK smarties try this one on for size Truth, they say is stranger than fiction Though personally I prefer friction The long and the short Of my favorite sport Is trying to improve my...Diction Bugs Get ya a Pos-T-Vac... they swear by it on them late-night TV commercials. ts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tennessee Stud, SASS# 43634 Life Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Written by one of my favorites... the author of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening The Hardship of Accounting Never ask for money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent. ~ Robert Frost (I quote that poam to ever dang IRS Examiner that I come in contact with... and since I got alot of high-income taxpayers... I come into contact with a bunch of 'em... ) ts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 OK smarties try this one on for size Truth, they say is stranger than fiction Though personally I prefer friction The long and the short Of my favorite sport Is trying to improve my...Diction Bugs My gut tells me Ogden Nash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 My gut tells me Ogden Nash. Me actually However I very much enjoy Ogden Nash and expect this reflects his influance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tennessee Stud, SASS# 43634 Life Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Me actually However I very much enjoy Ogden Nash and expect this reflects his influance. I was gonna say Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)... ts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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