Men Art War

Through clouded eyes we glimpse the cliffs that loom over yon distant shores.</br>The waves they break with giant's strength and boom like oaken castle doors.</br>Lightning threatens from above while frenzied sharks await below.</br>Danger it is all about. In every element lurks a foe.</br>Creation. Destruction. Birth and Death. The same. The same. The same.</br>Fire melts the eternal ice which transformed douses the flame.</br>Onward we sail toward those cliffs determined to reach the beckoning shore.</br>And on landing make what our fathers made-glorious art and glorious war.</P>Thus read the final lines of <I>The Lay of Hadding</I> the anonymously penned late 19th century poem that later stirred a generation of young writers (including W.B. Yeats and Wyndham Lewis) and the inspiration for the stories presented in <I>Men·Art·War</I>. From the Egyptian deserts to the green fields of Gaul to the small towns of North Carolina; from 332 B.C.E. to eleven years after tomorrow; here are ten rousing tales of art and war and the men who wage both.</P>