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diff --git a/40345-8.txt b/40345-8.txt deleted file mode 100644 index daf3d48..0000000 --- a/40345-8.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1227 +0,0 @@ - A SONG OF THE GUNS - - - - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost -no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it -under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this -eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license. - - -Title: A Song of the Guns - -Author: Gilbert Frankau - -Release Date: July 26, 2012 [EBook #40345] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SONG OF THE GUNS *** - - - - -Produced by Al Haines. - - - - -[Illustration: Cover] - - - - - A SONG OF THE GUNS - - - BY - - GILBERT FRANKAU, R.S.A. - - - - - BOSTON AND NEW YORK - HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY - The Riverside Press Cambridge - 1916 - - - - - COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY GILBERT FRANKAU - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - _Published April 1916_ - - - - NOTE - - -_A Song of the Guns_ was written under what are probably the most -remarkable conditions in which a poem has ever been composed. The -author, who is now serving in Flanders, was present at the battle of -Loos, and during a lull in the fighting--when the gunners, who had been -sleepless for five nights, were resting like tired dogs under their -guns--he jotted down the main theme of the poem. After the battle the -artillery brigade to which he was attached was ordered to Ypres, and it -was during the long trench warfare in this district, within sight of the -ruined tower of Ypres Cathedral, that the poem was finally completed. -The last three stanzas were written at midnight in Brigade Headquarters -with the German shells screaming over into the ruined town. - - - - - CONTENTS - - -The Voice of the Slaves -Headquarters -Gun-Teams -Eyes in the Air -Signals -The Observers -Ammunition Column -The Voice of the Guns - - - - - A SONG OF THE GUNS - - - These are our masters, the slim - Grim muzzles that irk in the pit; - That chafe for the rushing of wheels, - For the teams plunging madly to bit - As the gunners wing down to unkey, - For the trails sweeping half-circle-right, - For the six breech-blocks clashing as one - To a target viewed clear on the sight-- - Gray masses the shells search and tear - Into fragments that bunch as they run-- - For the hour of the red battle-harvest, - The dream of the slaves of the gun! - - We have bartered our souls to the guns; - Every fibre of body and brain - Have we trained to them, chained to them. Serfs? - Aye! but proud of the weight of our chain, - Of our backs that are bowed to their workings, - To hide them and guard and disguise, - Of our ears that are deafened with service, - Of hands that are scarred, and of eyes - Grown hawklike with marking their prey, - Of wings that are slashed as with swords - When we hover, the turn of a blade - From the death that is sweet to our lords. - - - - - THE VOICE OF THE SLAVES - - - _By the ears and the eyes and the brain,_ - _By the limbs and the hands and the wings,_ - _We are slaves to our masters the guns;_ - _But their slaves are the masters of kings!_ - - - - - HEADQUARTERS - - - A league and a league from the trenches, - from the traversed maze of the lines,-- - Where daylong the sniper watches and daylong the - bullet whines, - And the cratered earth is in travail with mines and - with countermines,-- - - Here, where haply some woman dreamed, (are - those her roses that bloom - In the garden beyond the windows of my littered - working-room?) - We have decked the map for our masters as a bride - is decked for the groom. - - Here, on each numbered lettered square,--cross-road - and mound and wire, - Loophole, redoubt, and emplacement, are the targets - their mouths desire,-- - Gay with purples and browns and blues, have we - traced them their arcs of fire. - - And ever the type-keys clatter; and ever our keen - wires bring - Word from the watchers a-crouch below, word - from the watchers a-wing; - And ever we hear the distant growl of our hid guns - thundering; - - Hear it hardly, and turn again to our maps, where - the trench-lines crawl, - Red on the gray and each with a sign for the - ranging shrapnel's fall-- - Snakes that our masters shall scotch at dawn, as is - written here on the wall. - - For the weeks of our waiting draw to a close.... - There is scarcely a leaf astir - In the garden beyond my windows where the - twilight shadows blur - The blaze of some woman's roses.... - "Bombardment orders, sir." - - - - - GUN-TEAMS - - - Their rugs are sodden, their heads are down, their - tails are turned to the storm. - (Would you know them, you that groomed them - in the sleek fat days of peace,-- - When the tiles rang to their pawings in the lighted - stalls and warm,-- - Now the foul clay cakes on breeching-strap and - clogs the quick-release?) - - The blown rain stings, there is never a star, the - tracks are rivers of slime. - (You must harness up by guesswork with a - failing torch for light, - Instep-deep in unmade standings, for it's active-service time, - And our resting weeks are over, and we move - the guns to-night.) - - The iron tires slither, the traces sag; their blind - hooves stumble and slide; - They are war-worn, they are weary, soaked with - sweat and sopped with rain. - (You must hold them, you must help them, swing - your lead and centre wide - Where the greasy granite pave peters out to - squelching drain.) - - There is shrapnel bursting a mile in front on the - road that the guns must take: - (You are nervous, you are thoughtful, you are - shifting in your seat, - As you watch the ragged feathers flicker orange - flame and break)-- - But the teams are pulling steady down the - battered village street. - - You have shod them cold, and their coats are long, - and their bellies gray with the mud; - They have done with gloss and polish, but the - fighting heart's unbroke. - We, who saw them hobbling after us down white - roads flecked with blood, - Patient, wondering why we left them, till we - lost them in the smoke; - - Who have felt them shiver between our knees, - when the shells rain black from the skies, - When the bursting terrors find us and the lines - stampede as one; - Who have watched the pierced limbs quiver and - the pain in stricken eyes, - Know the worth of humble servants, foolish-faithful - to their gun! - - - - - EYES IN THE AIR - - - Our guns are a league behind us, our target a mile below, - And there's never a cloud to blind us from the haunts of - our lurking foe-- - Sunk pit whence his shrapnel tore us, support-trench - crest-concealed, - As clear as the charts before us, his ramparts lie revealed. - His panicked watchers spy us, a droning threat in the void; - Their whistling shells outfly us--puff upon puff, deployed - Across the green beneath us, across the flanking grey, - In fume and fire to sheathe us and balk us of our prey. - - Below, beyond, above her, - Their iron web is spun! - Flicked but unsnared we hover, - Edged planes against the sun: - Eyes in the air above his lair, - The hawks that guide the gun! - - No word from earth may reach us save, white against the ground, - The strips outspread to teach us whose ears are deaf to sound: - But down the winds that sear us, athwart our engine's shriek, - We send--and know they hear us, the ranging guns we speak. - Our visored eyeballs show us their answering pennant, broke - Eight thousand feet below us, a whirl of flame-stabbed smoke-- - The burst that hangs to guide us, while numbed gloved fingers - tap - From wireless key beside us the circles of the map. - - Line--target--short or over-- - Comes, plain as clock-hands run, - Word from the birds that hover, - Unblinded, tail to sun-- - Word out of air to range them fair, - From hawks that guide the gun! - - Your flying shells have failed you, your landward guns are dumb: - Since earth hath naught availed you, these skies be open! Come, - Where, wild to meet and mate you, flame in their beaks for - breath, - Black doves! the white hawks wait you on the wind-tossed - boughs of death. - These boughs be cold without you, our hearts are hot for this, - Our wings shall beat about you, our scorching breath shall kiss: - Till, fraught with that we gave you, fulfilled of our desire, - You bank,--too late to save you from biting beaks of fire,-- - - Turn sideways from your lover, - Shudder and swerve and run, - Tilt; stagger; and plunge over - Ablaze against the sun,-- - Doves dead in air, who clomb to dare - The hawks that guide the gun! - - - - - SIGNALS - - - The hot wax drips from the flares - On the scrawled pink forms that litter - The bench where he sits; the glitter - Of stars is framed by the sandbags atop of the dug-out stairs. - And the lagging watch-hands creep; - And his cloaked mates murmur in sleep,-- - Forms he can wake with a kick,-- - And he hears, as he plays with the pressel-switch, the strapped - receiver click - On his ear that listens, listens; - And the candle-flicker glistens - On the rounded brass of the switch-board where the red wires - cluster thick. - - Wires from the earth, from the air; - Wires that whisper and chatter - At night, when the trench-rats patter - And nibble among the rations and scuttle back to their lair; - Wires that are never at rest,-- - For the linesmen tap them and test, - And ever they tremble with tone:-- - And he knows from a hundred signals the buzzing call of his own, - The breaks and the vibrant stresses,-- - The Z and the G and the S's - That call his hand to the answering key and his mouth to the - microphone. - - For always the laid guns fret - On the words that his mouth shall utter, - When rifle and Maxim stutter - And the rockets volley to starward from the spurting parapet; - And always his ear must hark - To the voices out of the dark,-- - For the whisper over the wire, - From the bombed and the battered trenches where the wounded moan - in the mire,-- - For a sign to waken the thunder - Which shatters the night in sunder - With the flash of the leaping muzzles and the beat of - battery-fire. - - - - - THE OBSERVERS - - - Ere the last light that leaps the night has hung and shone and - died, - While yet the breast-high fog of dawn is swathed about the - plain, - By hedge and track our slaves go back, the waning stars for - guide, - Eyes of our mouths; the mists have cleared, the guns would - speak again! - - Faint on the ears that strain to hear, their orders trickle down - "Degrees--twelve--left of zero line--corrector one three - eight-- - Three thousand." ... Shift our trails and lift the muzzles that - shall drown - The rifle's idle chatter when our sendings detonate. - - Sending or still, these serve our will; the hidden eyes that - mark - From gutted farm, from laddered tree that scans the furrowed - slope, - From coigns of slag whose pit-ropes sag on burrowed ways and - dark, - In open trench where sandbags hold the steady periscope. - - Waking, they know the instant foe, the bullets phutting by, - The blurring lens, the sodden map, the wires that leak or - break! - Sleeping, they dream of shells that scream adown a sunless sky-- - And the splinters patter round them in their dug-outs as they - wake. - - Not theirs, the wet glad bayonet, the red and racing hour, - The rush that clears the bombing-post with knife and - hand-grenade; - Not theirs the zest when, steel to breast, the last survivors - cower,-- - Yet can ye hold the ground ye won, save these be there to aid? - - These, that observe the shell's far swerve, these of the quiet - voice, - That bids "go on," repeats the range, corrects for fuse or - line... - Though dour the task their masters ask, what room for thought or - choice? - This is ours by right of service, heedless gift of youthful - eyne! - - Careless they give while yet they live; the dead we tasked too - sore - Bear witness we were naught begrudged of riches or of youth; - Careless they gave; across their grave our calling salvoes roar, - And those we maimed come back to us in proof our dead speak - truth! - - - - - AMMUNITION COLUMN - - - _I am only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an endless - chain:--_ - _And the rounds are drawn, and the rounds are fired,_ - _and the empties return again;_ - _'Railroad, lorry, and limber; battery, column, and park;_ - _'To the shelf where the set fuse waits the breech, from_ - _the quay where the shells embark._ - We have watered and fed, and eaten our beef; the - long dull day drags by, - As I sit here watching our "Archibalds" _strafing_ an empty sky; - Puff and flash on the far-off blue round the speck - one guesses the plane-- - Smoke and spark of the gun-machine that is fed by the endless - chain. - - I am only a cog in a giant machine, a little link in the chain, - Waiting a word from the wagon-lines that the guns are hungry - again:-- - _Column-wagon to battery-wagon, and battery-wagon to gun;_ - _To the loader kneeling 'twixt trail and wheel from the_ - _shops where the steam-lathes run._ - There's a lone mule braying against the line where - the mud cakes fetlock-deep! - There's a lone soul humming a hint of a song in - the barn where the drivers sleep; - And I hear the pash of the orderly's horse as he - canters him down the lane-- - Another cog in the gun-machine, a link in the selfsame chain. - - I am only a cog in a giant machine, but a vital link in the - chain; - And the Captain has sent from the wagon-line to - fill his wagons again;-- - _From wagon-limber to gunpit dump; from loader's forearm at - breech_ - _To the working party that melts away when the shrapnel_ - _bullets screech.--_ - So the restless section pulls out once more in column - of route from the right, - At the tail of a blood-red afternoon; so the flux of another - night - Bears back the wagons we fill at dawn to the sleeping column - again... - Cog on cog in the gun-machine, link on link in the chain! - - - - - THE VOICE OF THE GUNS - - - We are the guns, and your masters! Saw ye our flashes? - Heard ye the scream of our shells in the night, and the - shuddering crashes? - Saw ye our work by the roadside, the gray wounded lying, - Moaning to God that he made them--the maimed and the dying? - Husbands or sons, - Fathers or lovers, we break them! We are the guns! - - We are the guns and ye serve us! Dare ye grow weary, - Steadfast at nighttime, at noontime; or waking, when dawn - winds blow dreary - Over the fields and the flats and the reeds of the barrier - water, - To wait on the hour of our choosing, the minute decided for - slaughter? - Swift the clock runs; - Yes, to the ultimate second. Stand to your guns! - - We are the guns and we need you! Here in the timbered - Pits that are screened by the crest and the copse - where at dusk ye unlimbered, - Pits that one found us--and, finding, gave life (did - he flinch from the giving?); - Laboured by moonlight when wraith of the dead - brooded yet o'er the living, - Ere with the sun's - Rising the sorrowful spirit abandoned its guns. - - Who but the guns shall avenge him? Strip us for action! - Load us and lay to the centremost hair of the dial-sight's - refraction. - Set your quick hands to our levers to compass the sped soul's - assoiling; - Brace your taut limbs to the shock when the thrust - of the barrel recoiling - Deafens and stuns! - Vengeance is ours for our servants. Trust ye the guns! - - Least of our bond-slaves or greatest, grudge ye the burden? - Hard is this service of ours which has only our service for - guerdon: - Grow the limbs lax, and unsteady the hands, which - aforetime we trusted; - Flawed, the clear crystal of sight; and the clean - steel of hardihood rusted? - _Dominant ones,_ - _Are we not tried serfs and proven--true to our guns?_ - - _Ye are the guns! Are we worthy? Shall not these speak for - us,_ - _Out of the woods where the torn trees are slashed with_ - _the vain bolts that seek for us,_ - _Thunder of batteries firing in unison, swish of shell - flighting,_ - _Hissing that rushes to silence and breaks to the thud of - alighting?_ - _Death that outruns_ - _Horseman and foot? Are we justified? Answer, O guns!_ - - Yea! by your works are ye justified,--toil unrelieved; - Manifold labours, coördinate each to the sending achieved; - Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, - unfeigned; - Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and - disdained; - Courage that shuns - Only foolhardiness;--even by these are ye worthy your guns! - - Wherefore--and unto ye only--power has been given; - Yea! beyond man, over men, over desolate cities and riven; - Yea! beyond space, over earth and the seas and the - sky's high dominions; - Yea! beyond time, over Hell and the fiends and - the Death-Angel's pinions! - Vigilant ones, - Loose them, and shatter, and spare not. We are the guns! - - - - - THE END - - - - - CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U . S . 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