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Katharine Tynan - Any Mother
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"What`s the news? Now tell it me."
     "Allenby again advances."
"No, it is not Allenby
     But my boy, straight as a lance is.

"Oh, my boy it is that runs,
     Hurls his young and slender body
On the dread death-dealing guns.
     Oh, he`s down! his head is bloody!"

"Haig`s offensive has begun."
     "Say not Haig`s nor any other,
Since it is my one sweet son
     In the gases` risk and smother.

"He is taken by the throat,
     In the bursting flame will quiver,
He the billet for all shot,
     He the shell`s objective ever."

So not Allenby nor Haig,
     But her darling goes to battle.
All the world`s red mist and vague
     Shattered by the scream and rattle.

Just one slender shape she sees,
     One bright head tossed hither, thither;
Oh, if he goes down the seas
     Whelm her and the world together!
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