Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CES PETITS FANTASSINS', by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR


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First Line: You jeered to see the soldiers when
Last Line: Of their old riddled flag!
Subject(s): Soldiers; Death


You jeered to see the soldiers when
They sought heroic graves,-
Boys and small merry husbandmen,
Pale children of the stool and pen,
And branded galley-slaves;
But you stood back in awestruck wise
When homeward they did lag,
Death looking out of many eyes,
Red heart's-blood soaking through the dyes
Of their old riddled flag!




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