Wilfred Edward Salter Owen Blind Poems

• 1. Dulce Et Decorum Est
  Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
  Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
  Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
  And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
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• 2. Arms And The Boy
  Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade
  How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;
  Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash;
  And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.
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• 3. The 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 through.
  Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime
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• 4. A Terre
  (Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.)
  
  
  
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• 5. Conscious
  His fingers wake, and flutter up the bed.
  His eyes come open with a pull of will,
  Helped by the yellow may-flowers by his head.
  A blind-cord drawls across the window-sill . . .
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