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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by GERTRUDE HAHN
First Line: How many men of state and high degree
Last Line: And moonlight, and a pretty girl to kiss.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: How many men of state and high degree
Last Line: And moonlight, and a pretty girl to kiss.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
How many men of state and high degree
Have placed how many wreathes upon this tomb;
Paying their tribute to the unknown dead
Secure and silent in his narrow room.
If he could know he would not even care,
I think he'd give the homage for one day
Of waking to his mother's morning call,
Of meals and work in the familiar way.
Or for an evening in a wooded park,
In a strange town in summer, with the hiss
Of locusts rasping, and the scent of grass,
And moonlight, and a pretty girl to kiss.
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