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90 ADJUTANT GILBERT FRANKAU
��HEADQUARTERS
A LEAGUE and a league from the trenches — from
the traversed maze of the Hnes, Where daylong the sniper watches and daylong the
bullet whines, And the cratered earth is in travail with mines and
with countermines —
��Here, where haply some woman dreamed (are those
her roses that bloom In the garden beyond the windows of my littered
working room ?) We have decked the map for our masters as a bride
is decked for the groom.
��Fair, on each lettered numbered square — cross- road and mound and wire.
Loophole, redoubt and emplacement — lie the tar- gets their mouths desire ;
Gay with purples and browns and blues, have we traced them their arcs of fire.
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