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Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
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After the blast of lightning from the east,
The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot Throne;
After the drums of time have rolled and ceased,
And by the bronze west long retreat is blown,
Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth,
All death will he annul, all tears assuage? —
Or fill these void veins full again with youth,
And wash, with an immortal water, age?
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We sent him down at last, out of the way.
Unwounded; — stout lad, too, before that strafe.
Malingering? Stretcher-bearers winked, 'Not half!' Next day I heard the Doc.'s well-whiskied laugh:
'That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!'
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I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.
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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do
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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
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Wilfred Owen
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Born:
March 18, 1893
Died:
November 4, 1918
(aged 25)
Bio:
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War.
Known for:
Dulce et Decorum est
Disabled
Mental Cases
Insensibility
The Parable of the Old Men and the Young
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