Thompson Poem

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“Fold up the banners! Smelt the guns!
Love rules, Her gentler purpose runs.
A mighty mother turns in tears
The pages of her battle years,
Lamenting all her fallen sons!”
—Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)

“The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)