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Canto I<br />

The course of the war from the opening salvoes to Gallipoli<br />

Outbreak<br />

From sylvan pool uprose the brooding Tsar,<br />

Genʹralry waiting on the silent rise,<br />

Trusting his cousin not to start a war;<br />

He gave casual call to ʹMobilise!ʹ<br />

That old word flies<br />

From the Romanov serve,<br />

Der Kaiser soon replies, seduced by conflictʹs verve.<br />

Thus a momentʹry decision<br />

Our world with warʹs rug smothers,<br />

Epic duel of man & nation,<br />

Cruel dread of doting mothers,<br />

Crude destroyer of religion,<br />

Rude bandsman of brothers,<br />

Famed time of glory, honour, passion, pride,<br />

But days of shame as Hell’s highways grow wide.<br />

There will be wars such as there have never been on earth... an<br />

eclipse of the sun such as there has probably never yet been on<br />

earth... I greet all the signs that a more manly, warlike age is<br />

coming, which will, above all, bring valour again into honour.<br />

Mrs Stiltski wiped eagerly<br />

Her husbandʹs glasses clean,<br />

ʺRead it to me, Anatoly...ʺ<br />

& aft, ʺWhat does it meanʺ<br />

ʺThis looks like war in Europe, I may have to don the green.ʺ<br />

Moshny<br />

July 31st<br />

1914<br />

Frederick Nietzsche

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