62 LINCOLN COLCORD
(Did you know that a man could live while maggots formed in his flesh ?)
His muscles twitched convulsively, he was barely conscious ;
He did not notice the match I struck, his eyes were filmed over, he would not drink ;
The region that he inhabited was an unknown, un- imaginable land.
(At home, a woman waits for news of him : It is well that she can never hear.)
5.
Pass on, pass on ! Behold the mobilization of
armies ; The men leaving their work at the counter and
factory, dropping the plow where it stands in
the field, Flocking together, filling the towns, saying good-by
to wife and children, taking a last look around ; {Our country calls ! Our country, and our King !)
Behold the flinging forward of nations in the wake of
armies ; The marvellous, massive engines, the enormous
paraphernalia ; The powerful mechanical conveyances, the long
lines of them carrying supplies ;
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