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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons...

-- Wilfred Owen

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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

True, I wrote a limerick when I was a kid and now I'm begging for sonnets on skid row.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's a free one to keep the shakes away:

How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Edit: Kind internet stranger pointed out to fix the formatting issue,

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is Markdown, like Reddit. There is an easy fix, and you don't need bullets (though that did the job in a pinch, good thinking). Check it out:

If you put two spaces after every line before the line break, they will display as separate lines.
Without the spaces, the line breaks don't matter and you end up with a big paragraph.
I usually do four spaces just because, but two spaces should do the job.
Try it.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you kind internet stranger!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So you're saying you have a serious prose-blem?

(I apologize in advance for this terrible pun)

[-] zobatch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can't apologize in advance after you do the thing you're apologizing for. That's just apologizing.

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