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The Great War
The war to end all wars.
Created on 2004-11-25 13:54:20 (#5262852), last updated 2009-07-07
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Basic Info| Name: | 1914 - 1918 |
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| Membership: | Open |
| Posting Access: | All Members |
| Description: | World War I, the Great War, as experienced and remembered |
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baron_waste and sonjaThe deathscape where the iron brambles writhe;
The sky at night
Is honoured with rosettes of fire,
Flares that define the corpses on the wire
As terror ticks on wrists at zero hour
Fear and a kind of love collaborate
To call each simple conscript up
For quick inspection:
Trenches' parapets
Paunchy with sandbags; bandoliers, tin-hats.
Candles in dugouts,
Duckboards, mud and rats.
Then, like patrols, tunes creep into the mind:
“A Long, Long Trail”, “The Rose of No-Man's Land”,
“Home Fire” and “Tipperary”:
And through the misty keening of a band
Of Scottish pipes the proper names are heard
Like fateful commentary of distant guns:
Passchendaele, Bapaume, and Loos, and Mons.
And now,
Whenever the November sky
Quivers with a bugle's hoarse, sweet cry,
The reason darkens; in its evening gleam
Crosses and flares, tormented wire, grey earth
Splattered with crimson flowers,
And I remember…
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