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THE MINE-SWEEPERS
Dawn off the Foreland–the young flood making
Jumbled and short and steep–
Black in the hollows and bright where it’s breaking–
Awkward water to sweep.
“Mines reported in the fairway,
Warn all traffic and detain.
Sent up _Unity_, _Claribel_, _Assyrian_, _Stormcock_, and _Golden
Gain_.”
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No comments» War is kind.
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Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
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No comments» Dulce et Decorum Est
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Dulce et Decorum Est. (written in 1917 by a World War I soldier named Wilfred Owenand it was published posthumously in 1921. The work’s horrifying imagery has made it one of the most popular condemnations of war ever written.
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