posted on 2024-04-05, 12:55authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
'Farewell,' the Corporal cried, 'La Bassée trenches! No Cambrins for me now, no more Givenchies, And no more bloody brickstacks---God Almighty, I'm back again at last to dear old Blighty.' But cushy wounds don't last a man too long, And now, poor lad, he sings this bitter song: 'Back to La Bassée, to the same old hell, Givenchy, Cuinchey, Cambrin, Loos, Vermelles.'
History
Identifier
3419.txt
Creator
Graves, Robert (1895-1985)
Date
(1995, 1997, 1999)
Date Created
01/01/1997
Temporal Date
31/12/1999
Type
Poem
Rights
The Robert Graves Copyright Trust / Published in Graves, R. (1999) Complete Poems: Volumes 1 - 3. Eds. B. Graves and D. Ward. London: Penguin Books.