Richard Aldington,
War and Love — The Blood of the Young Men
(1919)
“ Give your lips and breasts to the old men, The kindly, impetuous, glowing, old men! They who will love you indeed, indeed, dears, Not as we do, drained of our blood, with weeping. Sell yourselves, oh, give yourselves to the cripples, Give yourself to the weak, the poor forgotten, Give yourself to those who escape the torture And buy their blood from the pools with weight of gold. ”
