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Insensibility (6)
2023-12-06VI But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns, That they should be as stones. Wretched are they, and mean With paucity that never was simplicity. By...
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The Sentry
2023-12-06The Sentry We'd found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell Hammered on top, but never quite burst throu...
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The Dead-Beat
2023-12-06The Dead-Beat He dropped, —— more sullenly than wearily, Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat, And none of us could kick him to his feet...
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Exposure (1)
2023-12-06Exposure I Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us . . . Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent . . . Low drooping ...
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Exposure (2)
2023-12-06II Pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces ——We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, De...
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The Chances
2023-12-06The Chances I mind as 'ow the night afore that show Us five got talking, —— we was in the know, "Over the top to-morrer; boys, we...
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Futility
2023-12-06Futility Move him into the sun —— Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in Franc...
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Smile, Smile, Smile
2023-12-06Smile, Smile, Smile Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned Yesterday's Mail; the casualties (typed small) And (large) Vast Booty from ou...
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Conscious
2023-12-06Conscious His fingers wake, and flutter up the bed. His eyes come open with a pull of will, Helped by the yellow may-flowers by his head. A blind-cord...
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A Terre
2023-12-06A Terre (Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I'm blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; can't shake hands now; never sh...