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"Bayonet lug to buttplate Impassive as the true touchstone, you gleam, old rifle tall as my hip. " The full text is here: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les/smle-0560031Les Murray 1938 - 2019. My father, gone to join the ancestors this week.
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Sorry you lost your Pop, my condolences to you and your family.
RIP Les.
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Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) d.v. Musings on TDS
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"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
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May he rest in the loving arms of The Lord.
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RIP, sorry for your loss!!
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Thank you for the kind thoughts and prayers. Did any of you read the poem?
There are humans truly unwarlike. They live well-guarded.
They are protected by everything on earth.
It is the far rim of things their chimneys sustain
from the warrior pent among soldiers. The corporal suddenly
leading his company, the naked youth trap-shooting Turks.
There are also wolves in sheep country who recommend grass...
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God bless. Truly sorry for your loss.
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Thank you for the kind thoughts and prayers. Did any of you read the poem?
There are humans truly unwarlike. They live well-guarded.
They are protected by everything on earth.
It is the far rim of things their chimneys sustain
from the warrior pent among soldiers. The corporal suddenly
leading his company, the naked youth trap-shooting Turks.
There are also wolves in sheep country who recommend grass...
Dan I read the poem. I have to admit I am a bit perplexed at the style and syntax of the poem. Is there a story behind it you can tell?
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
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It is about rifles: taking the old SMLE out for a shot and thinking more broadly about them.
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