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<div>This is a poem that I have not been able to get out of my head. I first came across it in a book called Poems of War Resistance, Scott Bates, ed. in 1970.

It still haunts me. The less said the better. Just read the poem and look at the picture.

[FONT=&quot]Nightmare, With Angels[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]By Stephen Vincent Benét[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]An angel came to me and stood by my bedside,[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Remarking in a professorial-historical-economic and[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot] irritated voice,[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"If the Romans had only invented a decent explosion-[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot] engine![/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Not even the best, not even a Ford V-8[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]But, say, a Model T or even an early Napier,[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT]<font face="&quot">They

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