Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SLAIN (IN THE BOER WAR), by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Partners in silence, mates in noteless doom Last Line: And cold adjudication of the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Boer War; Death; South African War; Dead, The | ||||||||
PARTNERS in silence, mates in noteless doom, Peers in oblivion's commonalty merged; Unto like deeds by differing mandates urged, And equalled in the unrespective tomb; Leal or perfidious, cruel or ruthful, whom Precipitate fate hath of your frailties purged; Whom duly the impartial winds have dirged, In autumn or the glorying vernal bloom: Already is your strife become as nought; Idle the bullet's flight, the bayonet's thrust, The senseless cannon's dull, unmeaning word; Idle your feud; and all for which ye fought To this arbitrament of loam referred, And cold adjudication of the dust. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
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