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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507834" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Approach</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1. <br>In the Grass: Halt by the Wayside</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In my tired, helpless body<br>I feel my sunk heart ache;<br>But suddenly, loudly<br>The far, the great guns shake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it sudden terror<br>Burdens my heart? My hand<br>Flies to my head. I listen…<br>And do not understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is death so near, then?<br>From this blazing light,<br>Do I plunge suddenly<br>Into vortex? Night?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Guns again! the quiet<br>Shakes at the vengeful voice…<br>It is terrible pleasure<br>I do not fear; I rejoice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2. <br>On the Way Up</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The battery grinds and jingles,<br>Mile succeeds to mile;<br>Shaking the noonday sunshine,<br>The guns lunge out a while<br>And then are still a while.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We amble along the highway;<br>The reeking, powdery dust<br>Ascends and cakes our faces,<br>With a striped, sweaty crust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under the still sky's violet<br>The heat throbs in the air…<br>The white road's dusty radiance,<br>Assumes a dark glare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a head hot and heavy,<br>And eyes that cannot rest,<br>And a black heart burning<br>In a stifled breast,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit in the saddle,<br>I feel the road unroll,<br>And keep my senses straightened<br>Toward to-morrow's goal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There over unknown meadows,<br>Which we must reach at last,<br>Day and night thunders<br>A black and chilly blast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heads forget heaviness,<br>Hearts forget spleen,<br>For by that mighty winnowing<br>Being is blown clean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Light in the eyes again,<br>Strength in the hand,<br>A spirit dares, dies, forgives<br>And can understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And best! Love comes back again<br>After grief and shame,<br>And along the wind of death<br>Throws a clean flame!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The battery grinds and jingles;<br>Mile succeeds to mile;<br>Suddenly battering the silence<br>The guns burst out a while.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lift my head and smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3. <br>Nearer</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Nearer and ever nearer….<br>My body tired but tense<br>Hovers 'twixt vague pleasure<br>And tremulous confidence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arms to have and to use them,<br>And a soul to be made<br>Worthy if not worthy;<br>If afraid, unafraid!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To endure for a little.<br>To endure and have done:<br>Men I love about me,<br>Over me the sun!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And should at last suddenly<br>Fly the speeding death:<br>The four great quarters of heaven<br>Receive this little breath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Nichols">Robert Nichols</a><div class=q>
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In the Grass: Halt by the Wayside


In my tired, helpless body
I feel my sunk heart ache;
But suddenly, loudly
The far, the great guns shake.

Is it sudden terror
Burdens my heart? My hand
Flies to my head. I listen…
And do not understand.

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