Six Weeks - The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War by John Lewis-Stempel

Author:John Lewis-Stempel [Lewis-Stempel, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History, Military, World War I
ISBN: 9780297860075
Google: znTamQypfC8C
Amazon: B0047DVIDY
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2010-10-27T13:00:00+00:00

But I remember, when the fight was done,

When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,

Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,

Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dressed,

Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reaped

Showed like a stubble land at harvest home.

He was perfumèd like a milliner,

And twixt his finger and his thumb he held

A pouncet box, which ever and anon

He gave his nose, and took’t away again; . . .

And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,

He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly,

To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse

Betwixt the wind and his nobility.

With many holiday and lady terms

He questioned me, amongst the rest demanded

My prisoners in your majesty’s behalf.

I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,

To be so pestered with a popingay,

Out of my grief and my impatience

Answered neglectingly, I know not what —

He should, or he should not; for he made me mad

To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet,

And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman

Of guns and drums and wounds — God save the mark!

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