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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RANK AND FILE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O undistinguished dead!
Last Line: This is your fame!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Boer War; South African War
First Line: O undistinguished dead!
Last Line: This is your fame!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Boer War; South African War
(SOUTH AFRICA, 1900)
O UNDISTINGUISHED Dead!
Whom the bent covers, or the rock-strewn steep
Shows to the stars, for you I mourn, -- I weep,
O undistinguished Dead!
None knows your name.
Blacken'd and blurr'd in the wild battle's brunt,
Hotly you fell ... with all your wounds in front:
This is your fame!
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