The Soaring Life of the Lark by John Lewis-Stempel

Author:John Lewis-Stempel [Lewis-Stempel, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473558618
Publisher: Transworld
Published: 2021-09-06T00:00:00+00:00

Sergeant John William Streets,

12/York and Lancaster Regiment

To a Skylark Behind Our Trenches

Thou little voice! Thou happy sprite,

How didst thou gain the air and light –

That sing’st so merrily?

How could such little wings

Give thee thy freedom from these dense

And fetid tombs – these burrows whence

We peer like frightened things?

In the free sky

Thou sail’st while here we crawl and creep

And fight and sleep

And die.

How canst thou sing while Nature lies

Bleeding and torn beneath thine eyes,

And the foul breath

Of rank decay hangs like a shroud

Over the fields the shell hath ploughed?

How canst thou sing, so gay and glad,

Whilst all the heavens are filled with death

And all the world is mad?

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