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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FARMER REMEMBERS THE SOMME, by VANCE PALMER
First Line: Will they never fade or pass!
Last Line: And the dark somme flowing.
Subject(s): Memory; World War I; First World War
First Line: Will they never fade or pass!
Last Line: And the dark somme flowing.
Subject(s): Memory; World War I; First World War
Will they never fade or pass!
The mud, and the misty figures endlessly coming
In file through the foul morass,
And the grey flood-water lipping the reeds and grass,
And the steel wings drumming.
The hills are bright in the sun:
There's nothing changed or marred in the well-known places;
When work for the day is done
There's talk, and quiet laughter, and gleams of fun
On the old folks' faces.
I have returned to these --
The farm, and the kindly Bush, and the young calves lowing;
But all my mind now sees
Is a quaking bog in a mist -- stark, snapped trees,
And the dark Somme flowing.
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