Poem of the Week: 1/11/09-1/17/09

This week’s poem of the week is “Death and His Brother Sleep” by Edwin J Milliken. This poem’s main claim to fame came by way of Churchill. He says in his memoirs that the last 6 verses came to his mind as he was filled with despair over the British failure to prepare for the coming war with Hitler.

Due to the fact that we could not find a suitable location to link to, we are reproducing the poem below the fold.

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