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Montague, Charles Edward - Unnamed Lines
Identifier
021648
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
So intriguing, so intriguing that line ..... To be slain, As I am, if I had.
This is a description of annihilation.
A description of the experience
Unnamed Lines
Yes, of course it was sin
And no Christ would say `Fight
For the right' -
But we had to win.
When the chaplain would bluster and blow
About laying the rod
Of God
On the back of `His foe',
I knew it was all just a form,
And there was no fiery sword,
And the Lord
Was not in the storm.
Yet - to have stood aside
Hoarding my fortunate life
With my wife
While other men died!
Some sort of god, good or bad,
Would have kept me longing in vain
To be slain
As I am, if I had.
Written sometime in 1917