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57391: The Dying Soldier

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'Here are houses', he moaned,
'I could reach but my brain swims.'
Then they thundered and flashed
And shook the earth to its rims.
'They are gunpits', he gasped,
'Our men are at the guns.
Water---water---O water
For one of England's dying sons.'
'We cannot give you water
Were all England in your breath.'
'Water---water---O water'
He moaned and swooned to death.

History

Identifier

3294.txt

Creator

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)

Date

1977

Date Created

01/01/1977

Temporal Date

31/12/1977

Type

Poem

Rights

The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate. As published in Rosenberg, Isaac; Bottomley, Gordon [ed.]; Harding, Denys [ed.], The Collected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg. London: Chatto and Windus, 1977. Preliminaries and editorial matter omitted.

Repository Name

ProQuest

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Usage metrics

    The Isaac Rosenberg Collection

    Categories

    Keywords

    First World War Poetry Digital ArchiveWorld War OnePoems

    Licence

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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