"On nights when the moon creeps shrouded up the sky And hedge and holt lie glimmering ghostly grey, A voice still whispers in me, far away β A good night, this, for wiring β and suddenly There rises from the dead that shadowy hell, The barbed-wire rasps, uncoiling through my hand, The flares dance flickering over no-man's-land, A dull machine-gun raps from La Boisselle. Then fades the phantom, and once more I know Our spider-webs of wire are rust by now, Our battlefields reconquered by the plough, And hands that worked with mine, dust long ago."
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"The Night is Chilly but not Dark", Poems (Cambridge, 1935) p. 89
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F. L. Lucas
Frank Laurence Lucas OBE (28 December 1894 β 1 June 1967) was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, polemicist, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He was also an intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.
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