Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BATTLE: 2. THE DANCERS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON


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First Line: All day beneath the hurtling shells
Last Line: Above the dreamless dead.


All day beneath the hurtling shells
Before my burning eyes
Hover the dainty demoiselles --
The peacock dragon-flies.

Unceasingly they dart and glance
Above the stagnant stream --
And I am fighting here in France
As in a senseless dream --

A dream of shattering black shells
That hurtle overhead,
And dainty dancing demoiselles
Above the dreamless dead.





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