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  • “19. A Dead Boche”

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    Posted on November 11th, 2008poppysmatusGeneral

    To you who’d read my songs of War
    And only hear of blood and fame
    I’ll say (you’ve heard it said before)
    “War’s Hell” and if you doubt the same,

    Today I found in Mametz Wood
    A certain cure for lust of blood:
    Where, propped against a shattered trunk
    In a great mess of things unclean

    Sat a dead Boche; he scowled and stunk
    With clothes and face a sodden green,
    Big-bellied, spectacled, crop-haired,
    Dribbling black blood from nose and beard.

    — from Fairies and Fusiliers, Robert Graves 1918

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    Graves was very close friend of Sassoon, whom he met during the Great War.

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