11-18-2021, 09:26 PM
Reasons (1893)
In ‘ninety-three HMS Camperdown
collided with and sank Victoria:
thousands of tons of steel and wood and coal
both stoked and piloted by tons of men
responding to a simple string of words
expressed in flags which none then understood
nor anyone can understand today.
At Balaclava forty years before
the poet wrote that none could reason why;
off Tripoli they steamed on to their deaths
when none dared call a halt to reason what.
In ‘ninety-three HMS Camperdown
collided with and sank Victoria:
thousands of tons of steel and wood and coal
both stoked and piloted by tons of men
responding to a simple string of words
expressed in flags which none then understood
nor anyone can understand today.
At Balaclava forty years before
the poet wrote that none could reason why;
off Tripoli they steamed on to their deaths
when none dared call a halt to reason what.
Non-practicing atheist