<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428621" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Any Mother</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What's the news? Now tell it me.'<br>'Allenby again advances.'<br>'No, it is not Allenby<br>But my boy, straight as a lance is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh, my boy it is that runs,<br>Hurls his young and slender body<br>On the dread death-dealing guns.<br>Oh, he's down! his head is bloody!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Haig's offensive has begun.'<br>'Say not Haig's nor any other,<br>Since it is my one sweet son<br>In the gases' risk and smother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He is taken by the throat,<br>In the bursting flame will quiver,<br>He the billet for all shot,<br>He the shell's objective ever.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So not Allenby nor Haig,<br>But her darling goes to battle.<br>All the world's red mist and vague<br>Shattered by the scream and rattle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just one slender shape she sees,<br>One bright head tossed hither, thither;<br>Oh, if he goes down the seas<br>Whelm her and the world together!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</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=428621" data-title="Any Mother de Katharine Tynan" data-description="'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 bloo..."></div> </div> </div>

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