<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459559" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>4 am,11 November 1918</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A still night; crescent moon; the faintest breeze.<br>Some wit might say, 'Peaceful, innit, Tommy? '<br>Two hours before the usual time for attack.<br>I wonder what they've got up their sleeve for today.<br>A bit too quiet right now, I'd say </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Careful how you breathe or talk<br>this chilly night, out there in the open trench; <br>frozen breath will draw the sniper's rifle sight</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sharp nose of some human terrier<br>passing over the familiar smells -<br>cordite, rifle oil, linseed for the wooden butt, the stench of death, <br>yesterday's corpses half submerged - <br>may detect, just over there, the unmistakeable smell<br>of fierce French 'Caporal' cigarettes; <br>there in front, strong German 'Zeppelins'; <br>round here, cheap Woodbines linger in the air</div><div style="margin:10px 0">hardly a human difference<br>worth fighting over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[revisited]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459559" data-title="4 am,11 November 1918 de Michael Shepherd" data-description="A still night; crescent moon; the faintest breeze. Some wit might say, 'Peaceful, innit, Tommy? ' Two hours before the usual time for attack. I wonder what they've got up their sleeve for today. A bit too quiet right now, I'd say Careful how you..."></div> </div> </div>

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