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Episode: On the Western Front by Alfred Noyes (1916) | The World of Momus Podcast
Description: Reading of the poem, On the Western Front by Alfred Noyes written in 1916
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I found a dreadful acre of the dead,
Marked with the only sign on earth that saves.
The wings of death were hurrying overhead,
The loose earth shook on those unquiet graves;
For the deep gun-pits, with quick stabs of flame,
Made their own thunders of the sunlit air;
Yet, as I read the crosses, name by name,
Rank after rank, it seemed that peace was there;<...