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right: 95%; font: medium sans-serif; text-indent: 0 } -.pageno:after { color: gray; content: '[' attr(title) ']' } -.lineno { position: absolute; left: 95%; font: medium sans-serif; text-indent: 0 } -.lineno:after { color: gray; content: '[' attr(title) ']' } -.toc-pageref { float: right } -pre { font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.9em; white-space: pre-wrap } -</style> -</head> -<body> -<div class="document" id="a-song-of-the-guns"> -<h1 class="document-title level-1 pfirst title">A SONG OF THE GUNS</h1> - -<!-- -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- --> -<div class="clearpage"> -</div> -<!-- -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- --> -<div class="align-None container language-en noindent pgheader" id="pg-header" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> -<p class="noindent pfirst">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 <a class="reference internal" href="#project-gutenberg-license">Project Gutenberg License</a> -included with this eBook or online at -<a class="reference external" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/license">http://www.gutenberg.org/license</a>.</p> -<p class="noindent pnext"></p> -<div class="noindent vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<div class="align-None container noindent white-space-pre-line" id="pg-machine-header"> -<p class="noindent pfirst white-space-pre-line"><span class="white-space-pre-line">Title: A Song of the Guns<br /> -<br /> -Author: Gilbert Frankau<br /> -<br /> -Release Date: July 26, 2012 [EBook #40345]<br /> -<br /> -Language: English<br /> -<br /> -Character set encoding: UTF-8</span></p> -</div> -<div class="noindent vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<p class="noindent pfirst" id="pg-start-line">*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK <span>A SONG OF THE GUNS</span> ***</p> -<div class="noindent vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="noindent pfirst" id="pg-produced-by"><span>Produced by Al Haines.</span></p> -<div class="noindent vspace" style="height: 1em"> -</div> -<p class="noindent pfirst"><span></span></p> -</div> -<div class="align-None container coverpage"> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 3em"> -</div> -<div class="align-center auto-scaled figure" style="width: 51%" id="figure-6"> -<span id="cover"></span><img class="align-center" style="display: block; width: 100%" alt=" " src="images/img-cover.jpg" /> -<div class="caption figure"> -Cover</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<div class="align-None center container titlepage white-space-pre-line"> -<p class="pfirst white-space-pre-line x-large">A SONG OF THE GUNS</p> -<div class="vspace white-space-pre-line" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<p class="medium pfirst white-space-pre-line">BY</p> -<p class="large pnext white-space-pre-line">GILBERT FRANKAU, R.S.A.</p> -<div class="vspace white-space-pre-line" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="medium pfirst white-space-pre-line">BOSTON AND NEW YORK<br /> -HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY<br /> -The Riverside Press Cambridge<br /> -1916</p> -<div class="vspace white-space-pre-line" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -</div> -<div class="align-None center container verso white-space-pre-line"> -<p class="center pfirst small white-space-pre-line">COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY GILBERT FRANKAU<br /> -ALL RIGHTS RESERVED<br /> -<em class="italics white-space-pre-line">Published April 1916</em></p> -<div class="vspace white-space-pre-line" style="height: 3em"> -</div> -</div> -<!-- --> -<p class="center medium pfirst">NOTE</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<p class="pfirst"><em class="italics">A Song of the Guns</em> 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.</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center large pfirst">CONTENTS</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<p class="left medium pfirst white-space-pre-line"><a class="reference internal white-space-pre-line" href="#the-voice-of-the-slaves">The Voice of the Slaves</a><br /> -<a class="reference internal white-space-pre-line" href="#headquarters">Headquarters</a><br /> -<a class="reference internal white-space-pre-line" href="#gun-teams">Gun-Teams</a><br /> -<a class="reference internal white-space-pre-line" href="#eyes-in-the-air">Eyes in the Air</a><br /> -<a class="reference internal white-space-pre-line" href="#signals">Signals</a><br /> -<a class="reference internal white-space-pre-line" href="#the-observers">The Observers</a><br /> -<a class="reference internal white-space-pre-line" href="#ammunition-column">Ammunition Column</a><br /> -<a class="reference internal white-space-pre-line" href="#the-voice-of-the-guns">The Voice of the Guns</a></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center large pfirst" id="id1">A SONG OF THE GUNS</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">These are our masters, the slim</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Grim muzzles that irk in the pit;</div> -</div> -<div class="line">That chafe for the rushing of wheels,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">For the teams plunging madly to bit</div> -</div> -<div class="line">As the gunners wing down to unkey,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">For the trails sweeping half-circle-right,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">For the six breech-blocks clashing as one</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">To a target viewed clear on the sight--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Gray masses the shells search and tear</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Into fragments that bunch as they run--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">For the hour of the red battle-harvest,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">The dream of the slaves of the gun!</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">We have bartered our souls to the guns;</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Every fibre of body and brain</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Have we trained to them, chained to them. Serfs?</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Aye! but proud of the weight of our chain,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Of our backs that are bowed to their workings,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">To hide them and guard and disguise,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Of our ears that are deafened with service,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Of hands that are scarred, and of eyes</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Grown hawklike with marking their prey,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Of wings that are slashed as with swords</div> -</div> -<div class="line">When we hover, the turn of a blade</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">From the death that is sweet to our lords.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center large pfirst" id="the-voice-of-the-slaves">THE VOICE OF THE SLAVES</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">By the ears and the eyes and the brain,</em></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">By the limbs and the hands and the wings,</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">We are slaves to our masters the guns;</em></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">But their slaves are the masters of kings!</em></div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center large pfirst" id="headquarters">HEADQUARTERS</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">A league and a league from the trenches,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">from the traversed maze of the lines,--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Where daylong the sniper watches and daylong the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">bullet whines,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">And the cratered earth is in travail with mines and</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">with countermines,--</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Here, where haply some woman dreamed, (are</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">those her roses that bloom</div> -</div> -<div class="line">In the garden beyond the windows of my littered</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">working-room?)</div> -</div> -<div class="line">We have decked the map for our masters as a bride</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">is decked for the groom.</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Here, on each numbered lettered square,--cross-road</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">and mound and wire,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Loophole, redoubt, and emplacement, are the targets</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">their mouths desire,--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Gay with purples and browns and blues, have we</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">traced them their arcs of fire.</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">And ever the type-keys clatter; and ever our keen</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">wires bring</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Word from the watchers a-crouch below, word</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">from the watchers a-wing;</div> -</div> -<div class="line">And ever we hear the distant growl of our hid guns</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">thundering;</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Hear it hardly, and turn again to our maps, where</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">the trench-lines crawl,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Red on the gray and each with a sign for the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">ranging shrapnel's fall--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Snakes that our masters shall scotch at dawn, as is</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">written here on the wall.</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">For the weeks of our waiting draw to a close....</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">There is scarcely a leaf astir</div> -</div> -<div class="line">In the garden beyond my windows where the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">twilight shadows blur</div> -</div> -<div class="line">The blaze of some woman's roses....</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">"Bombardment orders, sir."</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center large pfirst" id="gun-teams">GUN-TEAMS</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Their rugs are sodden, their heads are down, their</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">tails are turned to the storm.</div> -</div> -<div class="line">(Would you know them, you that groomed them</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">in the sleek fat days of peace,--</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">When the tiles rang to their pawings in the lighted</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">stalls and warm,--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Now the foul clay cakes on breeching-strap and</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">clogs the quick-release?)</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">The blown rain stings, there is never a star, the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">tracks are rivers of slime.</div> -</div> -<div class="line">(You must harness up by guesswork with a</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">failing torch for light,</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Instep-deep in unmade standings, for it's active-service time,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">And our resting weeks are over, and we move</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">the guns to-night.)</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">The iron tires slither, the traces sag; their blind</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">hooves stumble and slide;</div> -</div> -<div class="line">They are war-worn, they are weary, soaked with</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">sweat and sopped with rain.</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">(You must hold them, you must help them, swing</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">your lead and centre wide</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Where the greasy granite pave peters out to</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">squelching drain.)</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">There is shrapnel bursting a mile in front on the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">road that the guns must take:</div> -</div> -<div class="line">(You are nervous, you are thoughtful, you are</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">shifting in your seat,</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">As you watch the ragged feathers flicker orange</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">flame and break)--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">But the teams are pulling steady down the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">battered village street.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">You have shod them cold, and their coats are long,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">and their bellies gray with the mud;</div> -</div> -<div class="line">They have done with gloss and polish, but the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">fighting heart's unbroke.</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">We, who saw them hobbling after us down white</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">roads flecked with blood,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Patient, wondering why we left them, till we</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">lost them in the smoke;</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Who have felt them shiver between our knees,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">when the shells rain black from the skies,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">When the bursting terrors find us and the lines</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">stampede as one;</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Who have watched the pierced limbs quiver and</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">the pain in stricken eyes,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Know the worth of humble servants, foolish-faithful</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">to their gun!</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center large pfirst" id="eyes-in-the-air">EYES IN THE AIR</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Our guns are a league behind us, our target a mile below,</div> -<div class="line">And there's never a cloud to blind us from the haunts of</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">our lurking foe--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Sunk pit whence his shrapnel tore us, support-trench crest-concealed,</div> -<div class="line">As clear as the charts before us, his ramparts lie revealed.</div> -<div class="line">His panicked watchers spy us, a droning threat in the void;</div> -<div class="line">Their whistling shells outfly us--puff upon puff, deployed</div> -<div class="line">Across the green beneath us, across the flanking grey,</div> -<div class="line">In fume and fire to sheathe us and balk us of our prey.</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Below, beyond, above her,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Their iron web is spun!</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Flicked but unsnared we hover,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Edged planes against the sun:</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Eyes in the air above his lair,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">The hawks that guide the gun!</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">No word from earth may reach us save, white against the ground,</div> -<div class="line">The strips outspread to teach us whose ears are deaf to sound:</div> -<div class="line">But down the winds that sear us, athwart our engine's shriek,</div> -<div class="line">We send--and know they hear us, the ranging guns we speak.</div> -<div class="line">Our visored eyeballs show us their answering pennant, broke</div> -<div class="line">Eight thousand feet below us, a whirl of flame-stabbed smoke--</div> -<div class="line">The burst that hangs to guide us, while numbed gloved fingers tap</div> -<div class="line">From wireless key beside us the circles of the map.</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Line--target--short or over--</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Comes, plain as clock-hands run,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Word from the birds that hover,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Unblinded, tail to sun--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Word out of air to range them fair,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">From hawks that guide the gun!</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Your flying shells have failed you, your landward guns are dumb:</div> -<div class="line">Since earth hath naught availed you, these skies be open! Come,</div> -<div class="line">Where, wild to meet and mate you, flame in their beaks for breath,</div> -<div class="line">Black doves! the white hawks wait you on the wind-tossed</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">boughs of death.</div> -</div> -<div class="line">These boughs be cold without you, our hearts are hot for this,</div> -<div class="line">Our wings shall beat about you, our scorching breath shall kiss:</div> -<div class="line">Till, fraught with that we gave you, fulfilled of our desire,</div> -<div class="line">You bank,--too late to save you from biting beaks of fire,--</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Turn sideways from your lover,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Shudder and swerve and run,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Tilt; stagger; and plunge over</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Ablaze against the sun,--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Doves dead in air, who clomb to dare</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">The hawks that guide the gun!</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center large pfirst" id="signals">SIGNALS</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">The hot wax drips from the flares</div> -<div class="line">On the scrawled pink forms that litter</div> -<div class="line">The bench where he sits; the glitter</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Of stars is framed by the sandbags atop of the dug-out stairs.</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">And the lagging watch-hands creep;</div> -<div class="line">And his cloaked mates murmur in sleep,--</div> -<div class="line">Forms he can wake with a kick,--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">And he hears, as he plays with the pressel-switch, the strapped</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">receiver click</div> -</div> -<div class="line">On his ear that listens, listens;</div> -<div class="line">And the candle-flicker glistens</div> -</div> -<div class="line">On the rounded brass of the switch-board where the red wires</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">cluster thick.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Wires from the earth, from the air;</div> -<div class="line">Wires that whisper and chatter</div> -<div class="line">At night, when the trench-rats patter</div> -</div> -<div class="line">And nibble among the rations and scuttle back to their lair;</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Wires that are never at rest,--</div> -<div class="line">For the linesmen tap them and test,</div> -<div class="line">And ever they tremble with tone:--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">And he knows from a hundred signals the buzzing call of his own,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">The breaks and the vibrant stresses,--</div> -<div class="line">The Z and the G and the S's</div> -</div> -<div class="line">That call his hand to the answering key and his mouth to the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">microphone.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">For always the laid guns fret</div> -<div class="line">On the words that his mouth shall utter,</div> -<div class="line">When rifle and Maxim stutter</div> -</div> -<div class="line">And the rockets volley to starward from the spurting parapet;</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">And always his ear must hark</div> -<div class="line">To the voices out of the dark,--</div> -<div class="line">For the whisper over the wire,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">From the bombed and the battered trenches where the wounded moan</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">in the mire,--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">For a sign to waken the thunder</div> -<div class="line">Which shatters the night in sunder</div> -</div> -<div class="line">With the flash of the leaping muzzles and the beat of battery-fire.</div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center large pfirst" id="the-observers">THE OBSERVERS</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Ere the last light that leaps the night has hung and shone and died,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">While yet the breast-high fog of dawn is swathed about the plain,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">By hedge and track our slaves go back, the waning stars for guide,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Eyes of our mouths; the mists have cleared, the guns would speak again!</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Faint on the ears that strain to hear, their orders trickle down</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">"Degrees--twelve--left of zero line--corrector one three eight--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Three thousand." ... Shift our trails and lift the muzzles that</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">shall drown</div> -</div> -<div class="line">The rifle's idle chatter when our sendings detonate.</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Sending or still, these serve our will; the hidden eyes that mark</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">From gutted farm, from laddered tree that scans the furrowed slope,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">From coigns of slag whose pit-ropes sag on burrowed ways and dark,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">In open trench where sandbags hold the steady periscope.</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Waking, they know the instant foe, the bullets phutting by,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">The blurring lens, the sodden map, the wires that leak or break!</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Sleeping, they dream of shells that scream adown a sunless sky--</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">And the splinters patter round them in their dug-outs as they wake.</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Not theirs, the wet glad bayonet, the red and racing hour,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">The rush that clears the bombing-post with knife and hand-grenade;</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Not theirs the zest when, steel to breast, the last survivors cower,--</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Yet can ye hold the ground ye won, save these be there to aid?</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">These, that observe the shell's far swerve, these of the quiet voice,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">That bids "go on," repeats the range, corrects for fuse or line...</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Though dour the task their masters ask, what room for thought or choice?</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">This is ours by right of service, heedless gift of youthful eyne!</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Careless they give while yet they live; the dead we tasked too sore</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Bear witness we were naught begrudged of riches or of youth;</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Careless they gave; across their grave our calling salvoes roar,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">And those we maimed come back to us in proof our dead speak truth!</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center large pfirst" id="ammunition-column">AMMUNITION COLUMN</p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">I am only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an endless chain:--</em></div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">And the rounds are drawn, and the rounds are fired,</em></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">and the empties return again;</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">'Railroad, lorry, and limber; battery, column, and park;</em></div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">'To the shelf where the set fuse waits the breech, from</em></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">the quay where the shells embark.</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line">We have watered and fed, and eaten our beef; the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">long dull day drags by,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">As I sit here watching our "Archibalds" <em class="italics">strafing</em> an empty sky;</div> -<div class="line">Puff and flash on the far-off blue round the speck</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">one guesses the plane--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Smoke and spark of the gun-machine that is fed by the endless chain.</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">I am only a cog in a giant machine, a little link in the chain,</div> -<div class="line">Waiting a word from the wagon-lines that the guns are hungry again:--</div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">Column-wagon to battery-wagon, and battery-wagon to gun;</em></div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">To the loader kneeling 'twixt trail and wheel from the</em></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">shops where the steam-lathes run.</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line">There's a lone mule braying against the line where</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">the mud cakes fetlock-deep!</div> -</div> -<div class="line">There's a lone soul humming a hint of a song in</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">the barn where the drivers sleep;</div> -</div> -<div class="line">And I hear the pash of the orderly's horse as he</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">canters him down the lane--</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Another cog in the gun-machine, a link in the selfsame chain.</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">I am only a cog in a giant machine, but a vital link in the chain;</div> -<div class="line">And the Captain has sent from the wagon-line to</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">fill his wagons again;--</div> -</div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">From wagon-limber to gunpit dump; from loader's forearm at breech</em></div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">To the working party that melts away when the shrapnel</em></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">bullets screech.--</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line">So the restless section pulls out once more in column</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">of route from the right,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">At the tail of a blood-red afternoon; so the flux of another night</div> -<div class="line">Bears back the wagons we fill at dawn to the sleeping column again...</div> -<div class="line">Cog on cog in the gun-machine, link on link in the chain!</div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<div class="center large line-block noindent outermost" id="the-voice-of-the-guns"> -<div class="line">THE VOICE OF THE GUNS</div> -</div> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">We are the guns, and your masters! Saw ye our flashes?</div> -<div class="line">Heard ye the scream of our shells in the night, and the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">shuddering crashes?</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Saw ye our work by the roadside, the gray wounded lying,</div> -<div class="line">Moaning to God that he made them--the maimed and the dying?</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Husbands or sons,</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Fathers or lovers, we break them! We are the guns!</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">We are the guns and ye serve us! Dare ye grow weary,</div> -<div class="line">Steadfast at nighttime, at noontime; or waking, when dawn</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">winds blow dreary</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Over the fields and the flats and the reeds of the barrier water,</div> -<div class="line">To wait on the hour of our choosing, the minute decided for slaughter?</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Swift the clock runs;</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Yes, to the ultimate second. Stand to your guns!</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">We are the guns and we need you! Here in the timbered</div> -<div class="line">Pits that are screened by the crest and the copse</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">where at dusk ye unlimbered,</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Pits that one found us--and, finding, gave life (did</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">he flinch from the giving?);</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Laboured by moonlight when wraith of the dead</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">brooded yet o'er the living,</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Ere with the sun's</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Rising the sorrowful spirit abandoned its guns.</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Who but the guns shall avenge him? Strip us for action!</div> -<div class="line">Load us and lay to the centremost hair of the dial-sight's refraction.</div> -<div class="line">Set your quick hands to our levers to compass the sped soul's assoiling;</div> -<div class="line">Brace your taut limbs to the shock when the thrust</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">of the barrel recoiling</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Deafens and stuns!</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Vengeance is ours for our servants. Trust ye the guns!</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Least of our bond-slaves or greatest, grudge ye the burden?</div> -<div class="line">Hard is this service of ours which has only our service for guerdon:</div> -<div class="line">Grow the limbs lax, and unsteady the hands, which</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">aforetime we trusted;</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Flawed, the clear crystal of sight; and the clean</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">steel of hardihood rusted?</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">Dominant ones,</em></div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">Are we not tried serfs and proven--true to our guns?</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">Ye are the guns! Are we worthy? Shall not these speak for us,</em></div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">Out of the woods where the torn trees are slashed with</em></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">the vain bolts that seek for us,</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">Thunder of batteries firing in unison, swish of shell flighting,</em></div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">Hissing that rushes to silence and breaks to the thud of alighting?</em></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">Death that outruns</em></div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">Horseman and foot? Are we justified? Answer, O guns!</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Yea! by your works are ye justified,--toil unrelieved;</div> -<div class="line">Manifold labours, coördinate each to the sending achieved;</div> -<div class="line">Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned;</div> -<div class="line">Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and disdained;</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Courage that shuns</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Only foolhardiness;--even by these are ye worthy your guns!</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line">Wherefore--and unto ye only--power has been given;</div> -<div class="line">Yea! beyond man, over men, over desolate cities and riven;</div> -<div class="line">Yea! beyond space, over earth and the seas and the</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">sky's high dominions;</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Yea! beyond time, over Hell and the fiends and</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">the Death-Angel's pinions!</div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line">Vigilant ones,</div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line">Loose them, and shatter, and spare not. 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