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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 8. A HOST OF SPIRITS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography First Line: We fought and saw the stars and fell Last Line: Take us; like men we fought. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Life; Dead, The | |||
We fought and saw the stars and fell. To fight and win were better; To fight and fall is well. Perhaps a god directed so We should be overcome; Perhaps; we may not know. We knew the trumpet call of life; We knew the call was not To victory, but strife. And if, indeed, no god there be That hung the stars we saw, Yet we who fought, yea, we Who died, out on the bloody sod, We know beyond all doubt In us there was a god. Strong Spirit, who hast wrought A fighting world for men, Take us; like men we fought. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND OVERTONES by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY |
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