WARNING
Posted by Admin on 20 January 2008, 12:00 am
Heed not the drum’s inspiring note,
nor the splendour of flags unfurled;
because pageantry bright of martial might,
can endanger a peaceful world.
Hear not inanely loyal cries,
lauding Homeland, if wrong or right;
for each dangerous phrase of misplaced praise,
aids the brutal that crave to fight.
’Tis not to deprecate the deeds
of the heroes who fought and fell;
that these cautioning lines show adverse signs,
but to teach what the dead would tell.
T. C. Hudson
16th September 1938
© T. C. Hudson.
Village
- - Apollo Theatre
- - Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society
- - Cowes Amateur Winemakers
- - Cowes Heritage
- - Cowes Radar Ex-Employees Association (CREEA)
- - Cowes-Deauville Twinning Association
- - Friends of Northwood Cemetery
- - Newport Rowing Club
- - Northwood Floral Art Group
- - Northwood Village Produce Association
- - Northwood W.I.
Parish Council