Thursday, 20 April 2017


A soldier’s cemetery

Behind that long and lonely trenched line
To which men come and go, where brave men die,
There is a yet unmarked and unknown shrine,
A broken plot, a soldier’s cemetery.

There lie the flower of youth, the men who scorn’d
To live (so died) when languished Liberty:
Across their graves flowerless and unadorned
Still scream the shells of each artillery.

When war shall cease this lonely unknown spot
Of many a pilgrimage will be the end,
And flowers will shine in this now barren plot
And fame upon it through the years descend:
But many a heart upon each simple cross
Will hang the grief, the memory of its loss

Created by John Williams Streets during the year of 1916 I don’t know where the poem was created

The poem gives a sad feeling to the readers I don’t know what the writer felt about the war and yes I do think the piece accurately portrays the war

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