The White Messenger

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Excerpt from The White Messenger: And Other War Poems Time - Some years hence. Place - Village in a great country far to the East, in Europe. Also, the outskirts of a considerable town. Chief Persons: The White Messenger. An Old Schoolmaster. Young Students. The Village Free-thinker. Soldiers and their officers. Imperial Officer. A Veteran of a former war. Pilgrim and others, strangers to the village who bring news. Women and girls. Among these last, one who is mad - Marussia. A Young Student - When I was small I heard my father say: "The cause of war is simpler than men think, The question is of Bread - Bread for the World." He said it with a frown I did not like, Relaxing to a smile I dreaded more, Not yet grown up to know its purport all. He said, "Yes, now there will be bread enough -" And paused to have some listener question him, "How do you figure that? Your reasons, pray." He set them forth: "This way it is, good friends: Five million mouths (or is it six, perchance?) Withdrawn, - their hunger the black earth has stilled - Too many eaters once - now, otherwise, - For those who yet abide in mortal flesh There will be bread enough for years to come!" Back came the cruel smile I winced to see: About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.