The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Various Contributors

Author:Various Contributors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2006-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Sir Henry Newbolt

The Dancers

(During a Great Battle, 1916)

The floors are slippery with blood:

The world gyrates too. God is good

That while His wind blows out the light

For those who die hourly for us –

We can still dance, each night.

The music has grown numb with death –

But we will suck their dying breath,

The whispered name they breathed to chance,

To swell our music, make it loud

10 That we may dance, – may dance.

We are the dull blind carrion-fly

That dance and batten. Though God die

Mad from the horror of the light –

The light is mad, too, flecked with blood, –

We dance, we dance, each night.

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