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* * * * * He gripped the stretcher; stiffened; glared; and screamed, "O put my leg down, doctor, do!" HE GRIPPED THE STRETCHER STIFFENED GLARED AND SCREAMED OH PUT MY LEG DOWN DOCTOR DO
fire-step like a fish, After the blazing crump had knocked him flat ... "_How many dead? As many as ever you wish_. _Don't count 'em; they're too many_. _Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?_" REMORSE Lost in the swamp and welter of the pit, He flounders off the duck-boards; only he knows Each flash and spouting crash,--each instant lit When gloom reveals the streaming rain. He goes Heavily, blindly on. And, while he blunders, "Could anything be worse than this?"--he wonders, Remembering how he saw those Germans run, Screaming for mercy among the stumps of trees: Green-faced, they dodged and darted: there was one Livid with terror, clutching at his knees.... Our chaps were sticking 'em like pigs.... "O hell!" He thought--"there's things in war one dare not tell Poor father sitting safe at home, who reads Of dying heroes and their deathless deeds." IN AN UNDERGROUND DRESSING-STATION Quietly they set their burden down: he tried To grin; moaned; moved his head from side to side.  SECTION TWENTY FOUR OF THE WAR POEMS OF SIGHFRIED SASSOON BY SIGUN READ FOR LIBERVOCCH'S DOT ORG BY MARK HISHALG IN AN UNDERGROUND DRESSING STATION QUIETLY THEY SET THEIR BURDEN DOWN HE TRIED TO GRIN MOANED MOVED HIS HEAD FROM SIDE TO SIDE
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