I adore war. ... It is like a big picnic but without the ob… - Julian Grenfell

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I adore war. ... It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy. ... It just suits my stolid health and stolid nerves and barbaric disposition. The fighting-excitement vitalizes everything, every sight and action. One loves one's fellow man so much more when one is bent on killing him.

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Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO (30 March 1888 – 26 May 1915) was an English soldier and a war poet of the First World War

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Alternative Names: Julian Henry Francis Grenfell • Captain Hon. Julian Henry Francis Grenfell • Capt. Hon. Julian Henry Francis Grenfell

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The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings;
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