ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH

It is always a shame the the education system rips the soul out of poetry and literature for most people. Here is Wilford Owen’s Anthem for Doomed Youth.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,

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