for I ate all my peas, minded my masters at school, then learned to march manly, and straight
to these trenches that surely are maps of hell; if there be such a place beyond here
in this dead, grey pasture, pocked by shells, and body parts strewn about like pieces of a puzzle that don't fit
Father said go, make England proud, but I know you would not wish this fate for me, or any of the children hiding in these pits, waiting for the command
to become fodder for the Gatling gun, the cannon; you would shed cataracts of tears for all of us, if ghosts above yet weep for the living
the ****** who will soon join you, though none know when; surely you will hear me cry your name, the way I have seen them all do, with their last breath