Siegfried Sassoon, 'Elsewhere'

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Cross-post from war_poetry:

Elsewhere

Let Congresses consider how to avoid
These bomb abominations being employed
In suicidal conflict-how
To unannihilate the future now.

Since nothing that one man can think or say
Could prove effective in the feeblest way,
He, for appeasement of his tortured mind,
Must look elsewhere to be
Defended and befriended and resigned
And fortified and free.

Elsewhere. The indestructible exists
Beyond found formulas of scientists.
Our spiritual situation stood the same
In other epochs when
To thwart all ministries of mercy came
The arrogant inventiveness of men.

by Siegfried Sassoon