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First Line: The tired air groans as the heavies swing over, the river-hollows
Last Line: Nor the blue javelin-flame of thunderous noons strike fear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


The tired air groans as the heavies swing over, the river-hollows boom;
The shell-fountains leap from the swamps, and with wildfire and fume
The shoulder of the chalkdown convulses.
Then jabbering echoes stampede in the slatting wood,
Ember-black the gibbet trees like bones or thorns protrude
From the poisonous smoke -- past all impulses.
To them these silvery dews can never again be dear,
Nor the blue javelin-flame of thunderous noons strike fear.




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