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Sunday 8 November 2015

Futility by Wilfred Owen

This is the World War One poem Jeremy Corbyn will read at an event today and to which the Daily Mail objects in a long list of Corbyn's misdeeds, errors:

Move him into the sun—
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields half-sown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds,—
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved—still warm—too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth’s sleep at all?


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3309003/Corbyn-s-anti-war-tribute-Labour-leader-read-Wilfred-Owen-poem-Futility-memorial-Cenotaph-ceremony.html#ixzz3qtyy43oT 
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