"I cannot quite remember.
. . . There were
five
Dropt dead beside me in
the trench -- and
three
Whispered their last messages
to me. . . ."
Back from the trenches, more
dead than
alive,
Stone-deaf and dazed, and
with a broken
knee,
He hobbled slowly, muttering
vacantly:
"I cannot quite rmember.
. . . There were
five
Dropt dead beside me in
the trench,a nd
three
Whispered their dying messages
to me. . .
"Their friends and waiting,
wondering how
they thrive --
Wating a word in silence
patiently. . . .
But what they said, or who
their friends
may be
"I cannot quite remember.
. . . There
where five
Dropt dead beside me in
the trench -- and
three
Whispered their dying messages
to me. . . ."
By: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson