2540 lines
140 KiB
HTML
2540 lines
140 KiB
HTML
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<title>Poetry</title>
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<section id="titlepage" epub:type="titlepage frontmatter">
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<h1 epub:type="title">Poetry</h1>
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<p>By <b epub:type="z3998:personal-name z3998:author">Wilfred Owen</b>.</p>
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<h2 epub:type="title">Table of Contents</h2>
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<li>
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<a href="#titlepage">Titlepage</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#imprint">Imprint</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#introduction">Introduction</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#preface">Preface</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#halftitlepage">Poetry</a>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-sentry">The Sentry</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-chances">The Chances</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#anthem-for-doomed-youth">Anthem for Doomed Youth</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#apologia-pro-poemate-meo" lang="la" xml:lang="la">Apologia Pro Poemate Meo</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#wild-with-all-regrets">Wild with All Regrets</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-end">The End</a>
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<a href="#dulce-et-decorum-est" lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dulce Et Decorum Est</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#insensibility">Insensibility</a>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#insensibility-1" epub:type="z3998:roman">I</a>
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<a href="#insensibility-2" epub:type="z3998:roman">II</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#insensibility-3" epub:type="z3998:roman">III</a>
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<a href="#insensibility-4" epub:type="z3998:roman">IV</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#insensibility-5" epub:type="z3998:roman">V</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#insensibility-6" epub:type="z3998:roman">VI</a>
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</li>
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</ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#conscious">Conscious</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#strange-meeting">Strange Meeting</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#strange-meeting-2">Strange Meeting: Another Version</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#arms-and-the-boy">Arms and the Boy</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-dead-beat">The Dead-Beat</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#s-i-w">
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<abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">S.I.W.</abbr>
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</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-show">The Show</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#futility">Futility</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#disabled">Disabled</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#greater-love">Greater Love</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#a-terre" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">A Terre</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-send-off">The Send-Off</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#mental-cases">Mental Cases</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#parable-of-the-old-men-and-the-young">Parable of the Old Men and the Young</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#exposure">Exposure</a>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#exposure-1" epub:type="z3998:roman">I</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#exposure-2" epub:type="z3998:roman">II</a>
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</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#spring-offensive">Spring Offensive</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#smile-smile-smile">Smile, Smile, Smile</a>
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</li>
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</ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#endnotes">Endnotes</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#colophon">Colophon</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#uncopyright">Uncopyright</a>
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<section id="imprint" epub:type="imprint frontmatter">
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<h2 epub:type="title">Imprint</h2>
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<h2 epub:type="title">Introduction</h2>
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<p>In writing an Introduction such as this it is good to be brief. The poems printed in this book need no preliminary commendations from me or anyone else. The author has left us his own fragmentary but impressive Foreword; this, and his Poems, can speak for him, backed by the authority of his experience as an infantry soldier, and sustained by nobility and originality of style. All that was strongest in Wilfred Owen survives in his poems; any superficial impressions of his personality, any records of his conversation, behaviour, or appearance, would be irrelevant and unseemly. The curiosity which demands such morsels would be incapable of appreciating the richness of his work.</p>
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<p>The discussion of his experiments in assonance and dissonance (of which <i epub:type="se:name.publication.poem">Strange Meeting</i> is the finest example) may be left to the professional critics of verse, the majority of whom will be more preoccupied with such technical details than with the profound humanity of the self-revelation manifested in such magnificent lines as those at the end of his <i lang="la" epub:type="se:name.publication.poem" xml:lang="la">Apologia pro Poemate Meo</i>, and in that other poem which he named <i epub:type="se:name.publication.poem">Greater Love</i>.</p>
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<p>The importance of his contribution to the literature of the War cannot be decided by those who, like myself, both admired him as a poet and valued him as a friend. His conclusions about War are so entirely in accordance with my own that I cannot attempt to judge his work with any critical detachment. I can only affirm that he was a man of absolute integrity of mind. He never wrote his poems (as so many war-poets did) to make the effect of a personal gesture. He pitied others; he did not pity himself. In the last year of his life he attained a clear vision of what he needed to say, and these poems survive him as his true and splendid testament.</p>
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<p>Wilfred Owen was born at Oswestry on 18th March 1893. He was educated at the Birkenhead Institute, and matriculated at London University in 1910. In 1913 he obtained a private tutorship near Bordeaux, where he remained until 1915. During this period he became acquainted with the eminent French poet, Laurent Tailhade, to whom he showed his early verses, and from whom he received considerable encouragement. In 1915, in spite of delicate health, he joined the Artists’ Rifles <abbr>O. T. C.</abbr>, was gazetted to the Manchester Regiment, and served with their 2nd Battalion in France from December 1916 to June 1917, when he was invalided home. Fourteen months later he returned to the Western Front and served with the same Battalion, ultimately commanding a Company.</p>
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<p>He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry while taking part in some heavy fighting on 1st October. He was killed on 4th November 1918, while endeavouring to get his men across the Sambre Canal.</p>
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<p>A month before his death he wrote to his mother: “My nerves are in perfect order. I came out again in order to help these boys; directly, by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can.” Let his own words be his epitaph:—</p>
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<span>“Courage was mine, and I had mystery;</span>
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<span>Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<footer>
|
||
<p epub:type="z3998:signature">Siegfried Sassoon.</p>
|
||
</footer>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="preface" epub:type="preface z3998:verse frontmatter z3998:non-fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Preface<a href="#note-1" id="noteref-1" epub:type="noteref">1</a></h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, dominion or power,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i3">except War.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The subject of it is War, and the pity of War.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Poetry is in the pity.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet these elegies are not to this generation,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">This is in no sense consolatory.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They may be to the next.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All the poet can do to-day is to warn.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That is why the true Poets must be truthful.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If I thought the letter of this book would last,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I might have used proper names; but if the spirit of it survives Prussia—my ambition and those names will be content; for they will have achieved themselves fresher fields than Flanders.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="halftitlepage" epub:type="halftitlepage frontmatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="fulltitle">Poetry</h2>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<article id="the-sentry" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Sentry</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We’d found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hammered on top, but never quite burst through.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Kept slush waist high, that rising hour by hour,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Choked up the steps too thick with clay to climb.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What murk of air remained stank old, and sour</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With fumes of whizz-bangs, and the smell of men</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who’d lived there years, and left their curse in the den,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If not their corpses. …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">There we herded from the blast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of whizz-bangs, but one found our door at last.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Buffeting eyes and breath, snuffing the candles.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thud! flump! thud! down the steep steps came thumping</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And splashing in the flood, deluging muck—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sentry’s body; then his rifle, handles</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of old Boche bombs, and mud in ruck on ruck.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We dredged him up, for killed, until he whined</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“O sir, my eyes—I’m blind—I’m blind, I’m blind!”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Coaxing, I held a flame against his lids</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And said if he could see the least blurred light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He was not blind; in time he’d get all right.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“I can’t,” he sobbed. Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Watch my dreams still; but I forgot him there</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In posting next for duty, and sending a scout</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To beg a stretcher somewhere, and floundering about</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To other posts under the shrieking air.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Those other wretches, how they bled and spewed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And one who would have drowned himself for good—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I try not to remember these things now.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let dread hark back for one word only: how</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Half-listening to that sentry’s moans and jumps,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the wild chattering of his broken teeth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Renewed most horribly whenever crumps</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pummelled the roof and slogged the air beneath—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“I see your lights!” But ours had long died out.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-chances" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Chances</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I mind as ’ow the night afore that show</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Us five got talking—we was in the know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Over the top to-morrer; boys, we’re for it,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>First wave we are, first ruddy wave; that’s tore it.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Ah well,” says Jimmy—an’ ’e’s seen some scrappin’—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“There ain’t more nor five things as can ’appen;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye get knocked out; else wounded—bad or cushy;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Scuppered; or nowt except yer feeling mushy.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>One of us got the knock-out, blown to chops.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>T’other was hurt, like, losin’ both ’is props.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An’ one, to use the word of ’ypocrites,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Ad the misfortoon to be took by Fritz.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now me, I wasn’t scratched, praise God Almighty</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(Though next time please I’ll thank ’im for a blighty),</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But poor young Jim, ’e’s livin’ an’ ’e’s not;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’E reckoned ’e’d five chances, an’ ’e’s ’ad;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’E’s wounded, killed, and pris’ner, all the lot—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The ruddy lot all rolled in one. Jim’s mad.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="anthem-for-doomed-youth" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Anthem for Doomed Youth</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Only the monstrous anger of the guns.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Can patter out their hasty orisons.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No mockeries for them; no prayers nor bells,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And bugles calling for them from sad shires.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What candles may be held to speed them all?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="apologia-pro-poemate-meo" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 lang="la" epub:type="title" xml:lang="la">Apologia Pro Poemate Meo</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I, too, saw God through mud—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">War brought more glory to their eyes than blood,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Merry it was to laugh there—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Where death becomes absurd and life absurder.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">For power was on us as we slashed bones bare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Not to feel sickness or remorse of murder.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I, too, have dropped off fear—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Behind the barrage, dead as my platoon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And sailed my spirit surging, light and clear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Past the entanglement where hopes lay strewn;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And witnessed exultation—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Faces that used to curse me, scowl for scowl,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Shine and lift up with passion of oblation,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Seraphic for an hour; though they were foul.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have made fellowships—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Untold of happy lovers in old song.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">For love is not the binding of fair lips</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">With the soft silk of eyes that look and long,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>By Joy, whose ribbon slips—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But wound with war’s hard wire whose stakes are strong;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Bound with the bandage of the arm that drips;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Knit in the welding of the rifle-thong.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have perceived much beauty</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Heard music in the silentness of duty;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nevertheless, except you share</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">With them in hell the sorrowful dark of hell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Whose world is but the trembling of a flare,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And heaven but as the highway for a shell,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>You shall not hear their mirth:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">You shall not come to think them well content</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">By any jest of mine. These men are worth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Your tears: You are not worth their merriment.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<footer>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<time datetime="1917-11">November 1917.</time>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</footer>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="wild-with-all-regrets" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Wild with All Regrets</h2>
|
||
<p epub:type="subtitle">(Another Version of <i lang="fr" epub:type="se:name.publication.poem" xml:lang="fr">A Terre</i>.)</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p epub:type="dedication">To Siegfried Sassoon</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My arms have mutinied against me—brutes!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My back’s been stiff for hours, damned hours.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I can’t read. There: it’s no use. Take your book.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A short life and a merry one, my buck!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We said we’d hate to grow dead old. But now,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not to live old seems awful: not to renew</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My boyhood with my boys, and teach ’em hitting,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shooting and hunting—all the arts of hurting!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—Well, that’s what I learnt. That, and making money.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your fifty years in store seem none too many;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I’ve five minutes. God! For just two years</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To help myself to this good air of yours!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One Spring! Is one too hard to spare? Too long?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Spring air would find its own way to my lung,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And grow me legs as quick as lilac-shoots.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yes, there’s the orderly. He’ll change the sheets</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I’m lugged out, oh, couldn’t I do that?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here in this coffin of a bed, I’ve thought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’d like to kneel and sweep his floors for ever—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ask no nights off when the bustle’s over,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I’d enjoy the dirt; who’s prejudiced</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Against a grimed hand when his own’s quite dust—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Less live than specks that in the sun-shafts turn?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dear dust—in rooms, on roads, on faces’ tan!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’d love to be a sweep’s boy, black as Town;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yes, or a muckman. Must I be his load?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A flea would do. If one chap wasn’t bloody,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or went stone-cold, I’d find another body.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Which I shan’t manage now. Unless it’s yours.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall stay in you, friend, for some few hours.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You’ll feel my heavy spirit chill your chest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And climb your throat on sobs, until it’s chased</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On sighs, and wiped from off your lips by wind.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I think on your rich breathing, brother, I’ll be weaned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To do without what blood remained me from my wound.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<footer>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<time datetime="1917-12-05">5th December 1917.</time>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</footer>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-end" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The End</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>After the blast of lightning from the east,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot throne,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>After the drums of time have rolled and ceased</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And from the bronze west long retreat is blown,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All death will he annul, all tears assuage?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or fill these void veins full again with youth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And wash with an immortal water age?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I do ask white Age, he saith not so—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“My head hangs weighed with snow.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And when I hearken to the Earth she saith</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“My fiery heart sinks aching. It is death.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mine ancient scars shall not be glorified</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor my titanic tears the seas be dried.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="dulce-et-decorum-est" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 lang="la" epub:type="title" xml:lang="la">Dulce Et Decorum Est</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And towards our distant rest began to trudge.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Gas! <strong>Gas!</strong> Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But someone still was yelling out and stumbling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In all my dreams before my helpless sight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Behind the wagon that we flung him in,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My friend, you would not tell with such high zest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To children ardent for some desperate glory,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The old Lie: <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dulce et decorum est</i></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<i lang="la" xml:lang="la">Pro patria mori.</i>
|
||
</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="insensibility" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Insensibility</h2>
|
||
<section id="insensibility-1">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Happy are men who yet before they are killed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Can let their veins run cold.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whom no compassion fleers</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or makes their feet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sore on the alleys cobbled with their brothers.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The front line withers,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But they are troops who fade, not flowers</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For poets’ tearful fooling:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Men, gaps for filling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Losses who might have fought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Longer; but no one bothers.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="insensibility-2">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And some cease feeling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even themselves or for themselves.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dullness best solves</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The tease and doubt of shelling,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And Chance’s strange arithmetic</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Comes simpler than the reckoning of their shilling.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They keep no check on Armies’ decimation.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="insensibility-3">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">III</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Happy are these who lose imagination:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They have enough to carry with ammunition.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their spirit drags no pack.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their old wounds save with cold can not more ache.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Having seen all things red,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their eyes are rid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the hurt of the colour of blood for ever.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And terror’s first constriction over,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their hearts remain small drawn.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their senses in some scorching cautery of battle</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now long since ironed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="insensibility-4">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">IV</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Happy the soldier home, with not a notion</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How somewhere, every dawn, some men attack,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And many sighs are drained.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Happy the lad whose mind was never trained:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His days are worth forgetting more than not.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He sings along the march</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which we march taciturn, because of dusk,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The long, forlorn, relentless trend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From larger day to huger night.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="insensibility-5">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">V</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We wise, who with a thought besmirch</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Blood over all our soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How should we see our task</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But through his blunt and lashless eyes?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alive, he is not vital overmuch;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dying, not mortal overmuch;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor sad, nor proud,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor curious at all.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He cannot tell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Old men’s placidity from his.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="insensibility-6">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VI</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That they should be as stones.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wretched are they, and mean</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With paucity that never was simplicity.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By choice they made themselves immune</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To pity and whatever mourns in man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before the last sea and the hapless stars;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whatever mourns when many leave these shores;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whatever shares</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The eternal reciprocity of tears.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="conscious" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Conscious</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>His fingers wake, and flutter up the bed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His eyes come open with a pull of will,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Helped by the yellow may-flowers by his head.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A blind-cord drawls across the window-sill …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How smooth the floor of the ward is! what a rug!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And who’s that talking, somewhere out of sight?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why are they laughing? What’s inside that jug?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Nurse! Doctor!” “Yes; all right, all right.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But sudden dusk bewilders all the air—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There seems no time to want a drink of water.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nurse looks so far away. And everywhere</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Music and roses burnt through crimson slaughter.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cold; cold; he’s cold; and yet so hot:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And there’s no light to see the voices by—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No time to dream, and ask—he knows not what.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="strange-meeting" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Strange Meeting</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It seemed that out of the battle I escaped</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lifting distressful hands as if to bless.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With a thousand fears that vision’s face was grained;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Strange, friend,” I said. “Here is no cause to mourn.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“None,” said the other, “Save the undone years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was my life also; I went hunting wild</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>After the wildest beauty in the world,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But mocks the steady running of the hour,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For by my glee might many men have laughed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And of my weeping something has been left,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which must die now. I mean the truth untold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The pity of war, the pity war distilled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now men will go content with what we spoiled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Courage was mine, and I had mystery;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To miss the march of this retreating world</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into vain citadels that are not walled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I would go up and wash them from sweet wells,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even with truths that lie too deep for taint.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I would have poured my spirit without stint</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am the enemy you killed, my friend.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let us sleep now …”<a href="#note-2" id="noteref-2" epub:type="noteref">2</a></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="strange-meeting-2" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Strange Meeting</h2>
|
||
<p epub:type="subtitle">Another Version</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Earth’s wheels run oiled with blood. Forget we that.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let us lie down and dig ourselves in thought.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beauty is yours and you have mastery,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wisdom is mine, and I have mystery.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We two will stay behind and keep our troth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let us forego men’s minds that are brute’s natures,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let us not sup the blood which some say nurtures,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be we not swift with swiftness of the tigress.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let us break ranks from those who trek from progress.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Miss we the march of this retreating world</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into old citadels that are not walled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let us lie out and hold the open truth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then when their blood hath clogged the chariot wheels</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We will go up and wash them from deep wells.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What though we sink from men as pitchers falling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Many shall raise us up to be their filling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even from wells we sunk too deep for war</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And filled by brows that bled where no wounds were.<a href="#note-3" id="noteref-3" epub:type="noteref">3</a></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="arms-and-the-boy" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Arms and the Boy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-heads</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which long to muzzle in the hearts of lads.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And God will grow no talons at his heels,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-dead-beat" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Dead-Beat</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He dropped—more sullenly than wearily,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And none of us could kick him to his feet;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Just blinked at my revolver, blearily;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—Didn’t appear to know a war was on,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or see the blasted trench at which he stared.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“I’ll do ’em in,” he whined. “If this hand’s spared,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’ll murder them, I will.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i3">A low voice said,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“It’s Blighty, p’raps, he sees; his pluck’s all gone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dreaming of all the valiant, that <em>aren’t</em> dead:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bold uncles, smiling ministerially;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Maybe his brave young wife, getting her fun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In some new home, improved materially.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It’s not these stiffs have crazed him; nor the Hun.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We sent him down at last, out of the way.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unwounded;—stout lad, too, before that strafe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Malingering? Stretcher-bearers winked, “Not half!”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Next day I heard the <abbr>Doc.</abbr>’s well-whiskied laugh:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="s-i-w" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">
|
||
<abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">S.I.W.</abbr>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<blockquote epub:type="epigraph z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“I will to the King,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And offer him consolation in his trouble,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For that man there has set his teeth to die,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And being one that hates obedience,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Discipline, and orderliness of life,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I cannot mourn him.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<cite><abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">W. B.</abbr> Yeats</cite>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Patting goodbye, doubtless they told the lad</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He’d always show the Hun a brave man’s face;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Father would sooner him dead than in disgrace—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was proud to see him going, aye, and glad.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perhaps his Mother whimpered how she’d fret</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until he got a nice, safe wound to nurse.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sisters would wish girls too could shoot, charge, curse, …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Brothers—would send his favourite cigarette,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Each week, month after month, they wrote the same,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thinking him sheltered in some <abbr>Y. M.</abbr> Hut,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where once an hour a bullet missed its aim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And misses teased the hunger of his brain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His eyes grew old with wincing, and his hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Reckless with ague. Courage leaked, as sand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From the best sandbags after years of rain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But never leave, wound, fever, trench-foot, shock,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Untrapped the wretch. And death seemed still withheld</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For torture of lying machinally shelled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At the pleasure of this world’s Powers who’d run amok.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He’d seen men shoot their hands, on night patrol,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their people never knew. Yet they were vile.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Death sooner than dishonour, that’s the style!”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So Father said.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i3">One dawn, our wire patrol</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Carried him. This time, Death had not missed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We could do nothing, but wipe his bleeding cough.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Could it be accident?—Rifles go off …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not sniped? No. (Later they found the English ball.)</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It was the reasoned crisis of his soul.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Against the fires that would not burn him whole</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But kept him for death’s perjury and scoff</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And life’s half-promising, and both their riling.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With him they buried the muzzle his teeth had kissed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And truthfully wrote the Mother “Tim died smiling.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-show" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Show</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My soul looked down from a vague height with Death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As unremembering how I rose or why,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And saw a sad land, weak with sweats of dearth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gray, cratered like the moon with hollow woe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And fitted with great pocks and scabs of plaques.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Across its beard, that horror of harsh wire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There moved thin caterpillars, slowly uncoiled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It seemed they pushed themselves to be as plugs</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of ditches, where they writhed and shrivelled, killed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>By them had slimy paths been trailed and scraped</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Round myriad warts that might be little hills.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>From gloom’s last dregs these long-strung creatures crept,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And vanished out of dawn down hidden holes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>(And smell came up from those foul openings</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As out of mouths, or deep wounds deepening.)</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>On dithering feet upgathered, more and more,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Brown strings towards strings of gray, with bristling spines,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All migrants from green fields, intent on mire.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Those that were gray, of more abundant spawns,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ramped on the rest and ate them and were eaten.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I saw their bitten backs curve, loop, and straighten,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I watched those agonies curl, lift, and flatten.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Whereat, in terror what that sight might mean,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I reeled and shivered earthward like a feather.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Showed me its feet, the feet of many men,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the fresh-severed head of it, my head.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="futility" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Futility</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Move him into the sun—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gently its touch awoke him once,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At home, whispering of fields unsown.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Always it woke him, even in France,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until this morning and this snow.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If anything might rouse him now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The kind old sun will know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Think how it wakes the seeds—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Full-nerved—still warm—too hard to stir?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was it for this the clay grew tall?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To break earth’s sleep at all?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="disabled" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Disabled</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Voices of play and pleasure after day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>About this time Town used to swing so gay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When glow-lamps budded in the light-blue trees</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—In the old times, before he threw away his knees.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now he will never feel again how slim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Girls’ waists are, or how warm their subtle hands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All of them touch him like some queer disease.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There was an artist silly for his face,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For it was younger than his youth, last year.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now he is old; his back will never brace;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He’s lost his colour very far from here,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And leap of purple spurted from his thigh.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One time he liked a bloodsmear down his leg,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>After the matches carried shoulder-high.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It was after football, when he’d drunk a peg,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He thought he’d better join. He wonders why …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Someone had said he’d look a god in kilts.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That’s why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He asked to join. He didn’t have to beg;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Smiling they wrote his lie; aged nineteen years.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Germans he scarcely thought of; and no fears</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Fear came yet. He thought of jewelled hilts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For daggers in plaid socks; of smart salutes;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And care of arms; and leave; and pay arrears;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Esprit de corps; and hints for young recruits.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And soon, he was drafted out with drums and cheers.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only a solemn man who brought him fruits</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thanked him; and then inquired about his soul.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now, he will spend a few sick years in Institutes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And do what things the rules consider wise,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And take whatever pity they may dole.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To-night he noticed how the women’s eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How cold and late it is! Why don’t they come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And put him into bed? Why don’t they come?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="greater-love" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Greater Love</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Red lips are not so red</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Kindness of wooed and wooer</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seems shame to their love pure.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O Love, your eyes lose lure</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">When I behold eyes blinded in my stead!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Your slender attitude</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Trembles not exquisite like limbs knife-skewed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rolling and rolling there</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where God seems not to care;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till the fierce Love they bear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Cramps them in death’s extreme decrepitude.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Your voice sings not so soft—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Though even as wind murmuring through raftered loft—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your dear voice is not dear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gentle, and evening clear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As theirs whom none now hear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Now earth has stopped their piteous mouths that coughed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Heart, you were never hot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And though your hand be pale,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Paler are all which trail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your cross through flame and hail:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="a-terre" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<hgroup>
|
||
<h2 lang="fr" epub:type="title" xml:lang="fr">A Terre</h2>
|
||
<p epub:type="subtitle">(Being the Philosophy of Many Soldiers.)</p>
|
||
</hgroup>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sit on the bed; I’m blind, and three parts shell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be careful; can’t shake hands now; never shall.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Both arms have mutinied against me—brutes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My fingers fidget like ten idle brats.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I tried to peg out soldierly—no use!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One dies of war like any old disease.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This bandage feels like pennies on my eyes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have my medals?—Discs to make eyes close.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My glorious ribbons?—Ripped from my own back</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In scarlet shreds. (That’s for your poetry book.)</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A short life and a merry one, my brick!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We used to say we’d hate to live dead old—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet now … I’d willingly be puffy, bald,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And patriotic. Buffers catch from boys</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At least the jokes hurled at them. I suppose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Little I’d ever teach a son, but hitting,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shooting, war, hunting, all the arts of hurting.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Well, that’s what I learnt—that, and making money.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your fifty years ahead seem none too many?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tell me how long I’ve got? God! For one year</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To help myself to nothing more than air!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One Spring! Is one too good to spare, too long?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Spring wind would work its own way to my lung,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And grow me legs as quick as lilac-shoots.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My servant’s lamed, but listen how he shouts!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I’m lugged out, he’ll still be good for that.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here in this mummy-case, you know, I’ve thought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How well I might have swept his floors for ever,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’d ask no night off when the bustle’s over,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Enjoying so the dirt. Who’s prejudiced</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Against a grimed hand when his own’s quite dust,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Less live than specks that in the sun-shafts turn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Less warm than dust that mixes with arms’ tan?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’d love to be a sweep, now, black as Town,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yes, or a muckman. Must I be his load?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O Life, Life, let me breathe—a dug-out rat!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not worse than ours the existences rats lead—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nosing along at night down some safe vat,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They find a shell-proof home before they rot.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And subdivide, and never come to death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Certainly flowers have the easiest time on earth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“I shall be one with nature, herb, and stone.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shelley would tell me. Shelley would be stunned;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The dullest Tommy hugs that fancy now.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Pushing up daisies,” is their creed, you know.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To grain, then, go my fat, to buds my sap,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For all the usefulness there is in soap.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>D’you think the Boche will ever stew man-soup?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some day, no doubt, if …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">Friend, be very sure</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall be better off with plants that share</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>More peaceably the meadow and the shower.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Soft rains will touch me—as they could touch once,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And nothing but the sun shall make me ware.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your guns may crash around me. I’ll not hear;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or, if I wince, I shall not know I wince.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Don’t take my soul’s poor comfort for your jest.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But here the thing’s best left at home with friends.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My soul’s a little grief, grappling your chest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Carry my crying spirit till it’s weaned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To do without what blood remained these wounds.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-send-off" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Send-Off</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the siding-shed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lined the train with faces grimly gay.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As men’s are, dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stood staring hard,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sorry to miss them from the upland camp.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then, unmoved, signals nodded, and a lamp</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Winked to the guard.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They were not ours:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We never heard to which front these were sent.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nor there if they yet mock what women meant</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who gave them flowers.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Shall they return to beatings of great bells</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In wild trainloads?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May creep back, silent, to still village wells</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Up half-known roads.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="mental-cases" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Mental Cases</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Baring teeth that leer like skulls’ tongues wicked?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stroke on stroke of pain—but what slow panic,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ever from their hair and through their hand palms</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Misery swelters. Surely we have perished</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sleeping, and walk hell; but who these hellish?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>—These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Memory fingers in their hair of murders,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Multitudinous murders they once witnessed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Always they must see these things and hear them,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Batter of guns and shatter of flying muscles,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Carnage incomparable and human squander</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rucked too thick for these men’s extrication.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Therefore still their eyeballs shrink tormented</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back into their brains, because on their sense</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sunlight seems a bloodsmear; night comes blood-black;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—Thus their heads wear this hilarious, hideous,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awful falseness of set-smiling corpses.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>—Thus their hands are plucking at each other;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Picking at the rope-knouts of their scourging;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Snatching after us who smote them, brother,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pawing us who dealt them war and madness.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="parable-of-the-old-men-and-the-young" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Parable of the Old Men and the Young</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And took the fire with him, and a knife.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And as they sojourned both of them together,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Behold the preparations, fire and iron,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And builded parapets and trenches there,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Neither do anything to him. Behold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But the old man would not so, but slew his son. …</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="exposure" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Exposure</h2>
|
||
<section id="exposure-1">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">But nothing happens.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Northward incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">What are we doing here?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of gray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">But nothing happens.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause and renew,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We watch them wandering up and down the wind’s nonchalance,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">But nothing happens.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="exposure-2">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">Is it that we are dying?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires glozed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shutters and doors all closed: on us the doors are closed—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">We turn back to our dying.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For God’s invincible spring our love is made afraid;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore were born,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">For love of God seems dying.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>To-night, His frost will fasten on this mud and us,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shrivelling many hands and puckering foreheads crisp.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The burying-party, picks and shovels in their shaking grasp,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">But nothing happens.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="spring-offensive" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Spring Offensive</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Halted against the shade of a last hill,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They fed, and, lying easy, were at ease</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, finding comfortable chests and knees</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Carelessly slept. But many there stood still</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To face the stark, blank sky beyond the ridge,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Knowing their feet had come to the end of the world.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Marvelling they stood, and watched the long grass swirled</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By the May breeze, murmurous with wasp and midge,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For though the summer oozed into their veins</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like the injected drug for their bones’ pains,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sharp on their souls hung the imminent line of grass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fearfully flashed the sky’s mysterious glass.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hour after hour they ponder the warm field—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the far valley behind, where the buttercups</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had blessed with gold their slow boots coming up,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where even the little brambles would not yield,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But clutched and clung to them like sorrowing hands;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They breathe like trees unstirred.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Till like a cold gust thrilled the little word</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At which each body and its soul begird</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And tighten them for battle. No alarms</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of bugles, no high flags, no clamorous haste—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only a lift and flare of eyes that faced</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sun, like a friend with whom their love is done.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O larger shone that smile against the sun—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mightier than his whose bounty these have spurned.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So, soon they topped the hill, and raced together</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Over an open stretch of herb and heather</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Exposed. And instantly the whole sky burned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With fury against them; and soft sudden cups</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Opened in thousands for their blood; and the green slopes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Chasmed and steepened sheer to infinite space.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Of them who running on that last high place</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leapt to swift unseen bullets, or went up</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On the hot blast and fury of hell’s upsurge,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or plunged and fell away past this world’s verge,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some say God caught them even before they fell.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But what say such as from existence’ brink</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ventured but drave too swift to sink.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The few who rushed in the body to enter hell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And there out-fiending all its fiends and flames</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With superhuman inhumanities,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Long-famous glories, immemorial shames—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And crawling slowly back, have by degrees</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Regained cool peaceful air in wonder—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why speak they not of comrades that went under?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="smile-smile-smile" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Smile, Smile, Smile</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yesterday’s Mail; the casualties (typed small)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And (large) Vast Booty from our Latest Haul.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Also, they read of Cheap Homes, not yet planned;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For, said the paper, “When this war is done</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The men’s first instinct will be making homes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Meanwhile their foremost need is aerodromes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It being certain war has just begun.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Peace would do wrong to our undying dead—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sons we offered might regret they died</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If we got nothing lasting in their stead.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We must be solidly indemnified.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though all be worthy Victory which all bought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We rulers sitting in this ancient spot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would wrong our very selves if we forgot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The greatest glory will be theirs who fought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who kept this nation in integrity.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nation?—The half-limbed readers did not chafe</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But smiled at one another curiously</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like secret men who know their secret safe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This is the thing they know and never speak,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That England one by one had fled to France</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(Not many elsewhere now save under France).</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pictures of these broad smiles appear each week,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And people in whose voice real feeling rings</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Say: How they smile! They’re happy now, poor things.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<footer>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<time datetime="1918-09-23">23rd September 1918.</time>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</footer>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<section id="endnotes" epub:type="endnotes backmatter z3998:non-fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Endnotes</h2>
|
||
<ol>
|
||
<li id="note-1" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>This Preface was found, in an unfinished condition, among Wilfred Owen’s papers. <a href="#noteref-1" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-2" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>This poem was found among the author’s papers. It ends on this strange note. <a href="#noteref-2" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-3" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Alternative line: “Even as One who bled where no wounds were.” <a href="#noteref-3" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="colophon" epub:type="colophon backmatter">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Colophon</h2>
|
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<p><i epub:type="se:name.publication.book">Poetry</i><br/>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen">Wilfred Owen</a>.</p>
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<span>May you do good and not evil.</span>
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