Shall they return to beatings of great bells
In wild trainloads?
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up half-known roads.
From:
The Send–Off. By Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC.
(18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918)
The Send–Off. By Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC.
(18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918)