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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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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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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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Insensibility (5)
2023-12-06V We wise, who with a thought besmirch Blood over all our soul, How should we see our task But through his blunt and lashless eyes? Alive, he is not v...
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Insensibility (4)
2023-12-06IV Happy the soldier home, with not a notion How somewhere, every dawn, some men attack, And many sighs are drained. Happy the lad whose mind was neve...
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Insensibility (3)
2023-12-06III Happy are these who lose imagination: They have enough to carry with ammunition. Their spirit drags no pack. Their old wounds save with cold can n...
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Insensibility (2)
2023-12-06II And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling, And Chance's strange arithmetic...
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Insensibility (1)
2023-12-06Insensibility I Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold. Whom no compassion fleers Or makes their feet Sore on the a...
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The Send-off
2023-12-06The Send-off Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stu...
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Anthem for Doomed Youth
2023-12-06Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid ra...