Strange Meeting
Out of battle the speaker seems to escape down a long dull tunnel into a hall of sleepers, one of whom springs up and stares with a look of recognition. What that sleeper says is an account of the poetry and truth that will now go untold, the courage and wisdom the world will be missing, and the war run backwards into what men might have built instead. The title takes a phrase from Shelley's The Revolt of Islam.
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