Exultant youths who would bewail or vaunt
The odds of love, no longer waste your breath:
A greater feat now summons you than love
Or life itself—it’s war, and war is death!
Rudolph Altrocchi (1882 - 1953) Italy
Source: Poetry: A Magazine of Verse 1912–22, edited by Harriet Monroe, 2011
Thank you
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