You've heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented,
Mocking and loathing War: you've asked me why Of my old, silly sweetness I've repented— My ecstasies changed to an ugly cry
You are aware that once I sought the Grail,
Riding in ar...
Both robb'd of air, we both lie in one ground ;
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drown'd
The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day,
There was a wreck of trees and fall of towers a score of miles away,
And drifted like a livid leaf I go before its tide,
Spewed out of house and stable, beggared of flag and...
Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time,
And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of the line;
But suddenly he paused, for he heard a clattering din,
When instantly two men on horseback drew rein beside him
'"Healfast, healfast, ye hero wounds; O knight, be quickly strong
Beloved strife For fame and life, Oh, tarry not too long
"'
when your hero falls from grace
all fairy tales r uncovered
myths exposed and pain magnified
the greatest pain discovered