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Keith
Douglas (1920-1944)
Three weeks ago and the
combatants gone, We
see him almost with content
returning over the nightmare
ground Abased,
and seeming to have paid
we found the place again, and
found and
mocked at by his own equipment
the soldier sprawling in the sun. that's
hard and good when he's decayed.
The frowning barrel of his gun But
she would weep to see to-day
overshadowing. As we came on how
on his skin the swart flies move;
that day, he hit my tank with one the
dust upon the paper eye
like the entry of a demon. and
the burst stomach like a cave.
Look. Here in the gunpit spoil For
here the lover and killer are mingled
the dishonored picture of his
girl who
had one body and one heart.
who has put: Steffi.
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death who had the soldier singled
in a copy book gothic script. has
done the lover mortal hurt.