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ESCAPE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE ARE FOUR OFFICERS, THIS MESSAGE SAYS
Last Line: FIND MR. WRESTMAN.
Subject(s): WORLD WAR I; FIRST WORLD WAR;

@3A Colonel:@1
THERE are four officers, this message says,
Lying all dead at Mesnil.
One shell pitched clean amongst'em at the foot
Of Jacob's Ladder. They're all Sussex men.
I fear poor Flood and Warne were of that party.
And the Brigade wants them identified ...

@3A Mind:@1
Now God befriend me,
The next word not send me
To view those ravished trunks
And hips and blackened hunks.

@3A Colonel:@1
No, not you, Bunny, you've just now come down.
I've something else for you.
Orderly!
(@3Sir!@1)
Find Mr. Wrestman.



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