"But she would weep to see today how on his skin the swart flies move; the dust upon the paper eye and the burst stomach like a cave.For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart. And death, who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt."
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"Vergissmeinnicht, 1943", in Collected Poems (1951), p. 34
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Keith Douglas
Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was a poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, '. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
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