Does this strike you as still applicable ?

Question

I was re reading a book of my brother's and found this poem on the title page.
" Adieu, the years are a broken song
And right grows weak in the fight with wrong.
The lillies of love have a crimson stain
And the old days never will come again"
This was from the diary of a WW1 Australian Soldier. Are the sentiments still accurate?
Love, Rose P.
PS, the book is "The Broken Years" by Bill GammIge. RP.

I believe these sentiments were accurate hundreds of years ago, are acurate now and will be in centuries to come, depressing as that may be.
Rose P.

Answer 1

I don't know, but it's meaning is that now Good is losing in the world, or not doing it's best, and the poem is still inspiring now.

I'd say that it's still applicable.

Good luck, Peace, Shalom, Salam, Paz, Nabad.

Answer 2

I would translate this poem like this:

"Adieu, the years are a broken song
And right grows weak in the fight with wrong"
The years are a broken song may mean time keeps repeating itself, and the fight with wrong is the war. So, The person is saying the years are the same over and over with a war that is creating no menaing for right and wrong anymore.

"The lillies of love have a crimson stain
And the old days never will come again"
Basically the crimson stain is bloodshed and the old days meaning old age/future. So, with all the bloodshed, the chances of seeing old age are slim.

I dunno.....

Answer 3

expensive Rose, My 'old days' are only 6 or 7 years in the past, yet sure, the years do experience like 'a broken music'. i'm sorry i won't be able to grant you a extra commonplace answer, extremely than one in specific approximately me. The poem is attractive and unhappy.

Answer 4

I think it's applicable to someone who's feeling depressed over something.

I hardly consider it reality, though.

Answer 5

Art is long and time is fleeting
and our hearts, though stout and brave
still, like muffled drums, are beating
funeral marches to our grave.
~Longfellow

Answer 6

totally senseless to a person who has no idea what he is referring to