Anthem for Doomed Youth

Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

       - Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
       Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
       Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, -
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
       And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?[..]

       Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes

Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.

       The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.





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