I love you, great new Titan! <br />Am I not you? <br />Napoleon or Caesar <br />Out of you grew. <br /> <br />Out of the unthinkable torture, <br />Eyes kissed by death, <br />Won back to the world again, <br />Lost and won in a breath, <br /> <br />Cruel men are made immortal, <br />Out of your pain born. <br />They have stolen the sun’s power <br />With their feet on your shoulders worn. <br /> <br />Let them shrink from your girth, <br />That has outgrown the pallid days, <br />When you slept like Circe’s swine, <br />Or a word in the brain’s way.<br /><br />Isaac Rosenberg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/soldier-twentieth-century/
