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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THAT WOODEN CROSS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: That wooden cross beside the road
Last Line: That wooden cross!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): World War I; First World War
First Line: That wooden cross beside the road
Last Line: That wooden cross!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): World War I; First World War
THAT wooden cross beside the road
Marks -- as the now-blurred legend showed --
That there a 'soldat anglais' dead
Has found betimes his foreign bed --
His last impregnable abode.
'Tis no uncommon episode,
You say, of war's barbaric code,
For which so many men have bled --
That wooden cross!
Nay, but this blood was well bestowed;
'Twas shed for nations 'neath the load
Of mailed oppression fury-fed,
And ruthless rapine, sore bestead.
Surely it needs no funeral ode --
That wooden cross!
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