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They were in orderly and perfect lines, stirring or swaying slightly: sometimes they bent their heads, sometimes two leaned together, but for the most part they were motionless. THEY WERE IN ORDERLY AND PERFECT LINES STIRRING OR SWAYING SLIGHTLY SOMETIMES THEY BENT THEIR HEADS SOMETIMES TOO LEANED TOGETHER BUT FOR THE MOST PART THEY WERE MOTIONLESS
 read my words, something of the extent of the wrongs that the people of France had suffered. There is no such need any longer. The tales, so far as they went, I gather together here for the few that seem to read my books in England. Dunsany. A Dirge Of Victory (Sonnet) Lift not thy trumpet, Victory, to the sky, Nor through battalions nor by batteries blow, But over hollows full of old wire go, Where among dregs of war the long-dead lie With wasted iron that the guns passed by. When they went eastwards like a tide at flow; There blow thy trumpet that the dead may know, Who waited for thy coming, Victory. It is not we that have deserved thy wreath, They waited there among the towering weeds. The deep mud burned under the thermite's breath, And winter cracked the bones that no man heeds: Hundreds of nights flamed by: the seasons passed. And thou last come to them at last, at last! The Cathedral Of Arras On the great steps of Arras Cathedral I saw a procession, in silence, standing still.  PART TWO OF UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS BY LORD DUNZANNEY THIS LEOP OF OX RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN RECORDING BY TRAVICE WAKEMEN SPOSYLVANIA VIRGINIA THE CATHEDRAL OF ARRAS ON THE GREAT STEPS OF ARAS CATHEDRAL I SAW A PROCESSION IN SILENCE STANDING STILL
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