Half-Hours at Helles (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Half-Hours at Helles Dedication Think not, if in these lays The singer seeks for smiles, That he forgets the unsmiling days Beyond the Aegean Isles, Think not he now pretends That Helles hours were sweet, Think not he wrongs the buried friends We left at Achi's feet. This is the Fourth of June. Think not I never dream The noise of that infernal noon, The stretchers' endless stream, The tales of triumph won, The night that found them lies, The wounded wailing in the sun, The dead, the dust, the flies. The flies! oh God, the flies That soiled the sacred dead. To see them swarm from dead men's eyes And share the soldier's bread! Nor think I now forget The filth and stench of war, The corpses on the parapet, The maggots in the floor. 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.