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August 6, 2015
Philip Larkin: Homage to a Government
HOMAGE TO A GOVERNMENT
Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
Must guard themselves, and keep themselves orderly.
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.
It’s hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it’s been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.
Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it’s a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.
via neo-neocon - A poet of the right
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"All we can hope to leave them now is money."
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I'm not going to leave much money as it has a tendency to do more wrong than right. Instead, I will leave some wisdom, and a few things - the same things that were left to my dad and passed on to me. Roots run deep around here.
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at August 7, 2015 8:41 AM