If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, — My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Your prose is far better than your poll interpretation not that I understood it and my latin is far worse. Personal opinions don't make facts and the pollster you are taking your figures from predicted 69 Labour MSPs last May, oops.
Ah, CH, Bow before this master. For if this is indeed the work of our Niko, then he is none other than the revered war poet Wilfred Owen. He must be knocking on a bit though, because he was the official poet for the First World War.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori = It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.
Thanks for the translation tris I still think that he thinks that Labour is left wing, I wonder what mind controlling drug is he on as it is pretty strong.
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ReplyDeleteIf in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, —
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
And no one lies more than the Nationalists
Your prose is far better than your poll interpretation not that I understood it and my latin is far worse. Personal opinions don't make facts and the pollster you are taking your figures from predicted 69 Labour MSPs last May, oops.
ReplyDeleteAh, CH, Bow before this master. For if this is indeed the work of our Niko, then he is none other than the revered war poet Wilfred Owen. He must be knocking on a bit though, because he was the official poet for the First World War.
DeleteDulce et decorum est pro patria mori = It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.
As daft then as it is now, in English or Latin.
Thanks for the translation tris I still think that he thinks that Labour is left wing, I wonder what mind controlling drug is he on as it is pretty strong.
DeleteFlags for patriots.............“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” and snp Nationalist
ReplyDelete‘lies, damned lies, and statistics.’”