# Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, # Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, # Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs # And towards our distant rest began to trudge. # Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots # But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; # Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots # Of disappointed shells that dropped behind. # # GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling, # Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; # But someone still was yelling out and stumbling # And floundering like a man in fire or lime.-- # Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light # As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. # # In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, # He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. # # If in some smothering dreams you too could pace # Behind the wagon that we flung him in, # And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, # His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; # If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood # Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, # Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud # Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- # My friend, you would not tell with such high zest # To children ardent for some desperate glory, # The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est # Pro patria mori. # Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" User-agent: * Disallow: /log.php Disallow: /add.php Disallow: /todo.php