jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (02/13/91)
nrossi@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Nick Rossi) wrote: > proberts@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Paul Roberts) writes: >> Trying to track down a quotation/poem, reportedly by "Lao Tse, 3rd c. BC" >> (but Lao Tse was 6th BC), it goes something like: >> "He who delights in the killing of men [will never come to any good]" > I suspect that this quote applies quite well to many of the folks running > this war... you have to wonder when general whats-his-name has the entire > press room laughing while he is showing the footage of bombs hitting their > targets. Can't help with that specific quote, but this is along the same lines. It was written by the New Zealand poet R.A.K. Mason in 1950; it was the first poem he had written for several years and the last one he was ever to write. SONNET TO MACARTHUR'S EYES ************************** General MacArthur looked down on the bodies of four young Korean soldiers. "That's a good sight for my old eyes", he said. NEWSPAPER REPORT I have known old eyes that has seen many more aspects of warfare than this man has seen - eyes that had looked on Gallipoli or the keen edge of battle with the Boer or in even older war had known Balaclava and the Mutiny's evil score: such eyes as I've known them old have always been eager to see spring flowers and the youth who mean mankind's spring after war's winter. Never before Have I known of anyone whose old eyes rejoice to see young men lying dead in their own land, never have I known one who of his own choice follows up the machines of death to take his stand over the slain and in a quavering voice declaim his joy at youth dead beneath his hand [ Followups to soc.culture.australian ] -- -- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6044 work 041 556 1878 home JANET: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcsun and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913 INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp
jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (02/13/91)
nrossi@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Nick Rossi) wrote: > proberts@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Paul Roberts) writes: >> Trying to track down a quotation/poem, reportedly by "Lao Tse, 3rd c. BC" >> (but Lao Tse was 6th BC), it goes something like: >> "He who delights in the killing of men [will never come to any good]" > I suspect that this quote applies quite well to many of the folks running > this war... you have to wonder when general whats-his-name has the entire > press room laughing while he is showing the footage of bombs hitting their > targets. Can't help with that specific quote, but this is along the same lines. It was written by the New Zealand poet R.A.K. Mason in 1950; it was the first poem he had written for several years and the last one he was ever to write. SONNET TO MACARTHUR'S EYES ************************** General MacArthur looked down on the bodies of four young Korean soldiers. "That's a good sight for my old eyes", he said. NEWSPAPER REPORT I have known old eyes that had seen many more aspects of warfare than this man has seen - eyes that had looked on Gallipoli or the keen edge of battle with the Boer or in even older war had known Balaclava and the Mutiny's evil score: such eyes as I've known them old have always been eager to see spring flowers and the youth who mean mankind's spring after war's winter. Never before Have I known of anyone whose old eyes rejoice to see young men lying dead in their own land, never have I known one who of his own choice follows up the machines of death to take his stand over the slain and in a quavering voice declaim his joy at youth dead beneath his hand [ Followups to soc.culture.australian ] -- -- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6044 work 041 556 1878 home JANET: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcsun and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913 INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp