Unhappy Far-Off Things (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 1332233163
- ISBN-13
- 9781332233168
- Pages
- 98
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-08-05
- Author
- Lord Dunsany
Description
Excerpt from Unhappy Far-Off Things A Dirge of Victory Lift not thy trumpet, Victory, to the sky Nor through battalions nor by batteries blow, But over hollows full of old wire go, Where among dregs of war the long-dead lie With wasted iron that the guns passed by When they went eastwards like a tide at flow. There blow thy trumpet that the dead may know, Who waited for thy coming, Victory. It is not we that have deserved thy wreath. They waited there among the towering weeds: The deep mud burned under the thermite's breath, And winter cracked the bones that no man heeds: Hundreds of nights flamed by: the seasons passed, And thou hast come to them at last, at last! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
