Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FORGOTTEN, by PAUL FORT


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First Line: France, you laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams
Last Line: France! You laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; France; War; Nightmares


France, you laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams.

But why do you laugh so loud, my dear? Is it that all your dead may hear?

There's laughter underneath the earth, evil laughter, cold and thin.

The earth is black, they are within. They watch the graveworms' ghastly mirth

while wooden crosses feel their tooth. They laugh, but 'tis at you, forsooth,

France! You laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams.




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