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Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; DULCE ET DECORUM EST WILFRED OWEN Adapted by George Pratt But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime... Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the ho If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori. Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;

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Uploaded Dec 17, 2020 at 04:19AM EST

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Poem by Wilfred Own, Art by George Pratt, Source is Above the Dreamless Dead.

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wilfred owen, george pratt, above the dreamless dead, poison gas, chemical warfare, world war 1, ww1, poetry, first world war, death, war, charcoal sketch

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