Name: Scholar of War
Duration: P00H04M39S
Description: Some lines taken from Stephen Crane's poem War is Kind published in 1899. There is nothing kind about war....but the poem made me think of boys and guns and the thirst some of us have for a good honorable fight and possible death.

Scholar of War

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Some lines taken from Stephen Crane's poem War is Kind published in 1899. There is nothing kind about war....but the poem made me think of boys and guns and the thirst some of us have for a good honorable fight and possible death.

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Please my sister do not cry
For your brother lost in the field
Please don’t cry my sister
Your brother was one of mine
A son of war a battle god, meant to drill and die
Do not weep girl, for war is kind
And though corpses fill the field tonight
Those souls who’d thirsted for fight
Have found their bellies filled and tight
And have entered a perfect night
Please don’t cry, love
For your brothers in the field
Pointing with crooked finger to the virtue of the kill
The glory of the slaughter, the excellence of the waste
A dead man knows better than most
But do not weep sister
For now those souls that are stilled
Waiting for barbarians, who know that war is kind
Please don’t cry, sister
For those minds we’ve lost in time
Your brother lies in the field of grisly dying
Carried upon a wicked sky
He was a son of war, a battle god
Meant to drill and die
Do not weep girl, for war is kind
Please don’t cry sister
Your brother was one of mine

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from RED DOLLARS, released November 17, 2014

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Red Dollars Mountain Rest, South Carolina

Daniel E. Weddle was born in Charleston, SC, raised in Pittsburgh, PA , and now lives in a holler in South Carolina.

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Mourners Bench

Apr 2015
Tiny Juggernaut

Apr 2015
St. Jude

Feb 2015
Sunny California

Jan 2015
THREE STATES

Jan 2015
King & Fool

Jan 2015
RED DOLLARS

Nov 2014
p.s.

Nov 2014

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