Page:Poems, Alan Seeger, 1916.djvu/183

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There where we faced under those frowning heights
The blast that maims, the hurricane that kills;
There where the watchlights on the winter hills
Flickered like balefire through inclement nights;


There where, firm links in the unyielding chain,
Where fell the long-planned blow and fell in vain—
Hearts worthy of the honor and the trial,
We helped to hold the lines along the Aisne.

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