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NIGHT AND DAY: 1. IN THE WORKSHOP, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces
Last Line: Grazed the dark waves and shivering further flew.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings


Dim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces,
Faces speechful, barren of soul and sordid,
Huddled and chewing a jest, lewd and gabbled insidious:
Laughter, born of its dung, flashes and floods like sunlight,
Filling the room with a sense of a soul lethargic and kindly,
Touches my soul with a pathos, a hint of a wide desolation.





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