<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412557" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Break of Day in the Trenches</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The darkness crumbles away <br>It is the same old druid Time as ever, <br>Only a live thing leaps my hand, <br>A queer sardonic rat, <br>As I pull the parapet's poppy<br>To stick behind my ear. <br>Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew <br>Your cosmopolitan sympathies, <br>Now you have touched this English hand <br>You will do the same to a German<br>Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure <br>To cross the sleeping green between. <br>It seems you inwardly grin as you pass <br>Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes, <br>Less chanced than you for life,<br>Bonds to the whims of murder, <br>Sprawled in the bowels of the earth, <br>The torn fields of France. <br>What do you see in our eyes <br>At the shrieking iron and flame<br>Hurled through still heavens? <br>What quaver -what heart aghast? <br>Poppies whose roots are in men's veins <br>Drop, and are ever dropping; <br>But mine in my ear is safe,<br>Just a little white with the dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Rosenberg">Isaac Rosenberg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412557" data-title="Break of Day in the Trenches de Isaac Rosenberg" data-description="The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever, Only a live thing leaps my hand, A queer sardonic rat, As I pull the parapet's poppy To stick behind my ear. Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew Your cosmopolitan sym..."></div> </div> </div>

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