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Updated: May 21, 2025
In the midst of an interested crowd of half a dozen young officers was a youngster in grey cloth, with a mud be-spattered coat, a swollen face, and two bandaged hands. On the table were a coffee-pot, some cups, and biscuits, and a small heap of loot gas masks and bayonets, and such stuff from German dug-outs.
It seemed as if Death itself were charging the gun. Within a few feet of it the horse swerved before a brandished rammer, and striking the cheeks of the gun-carriage pitched his inanimate rider across the gun. The hot blood of the dead man smoked on the hotter brass with the reek of the shambles, and be-spattered the hand of the gunner who still mechanically served the vent.
In proof of this sympathy we have given up our own sons whom we love with all our hearts, more than life if we could but give our lives for theirs! but not more than our pride, with which we try to veil the moral confusion, the empty darkness of mind and heart. We will say nothing of those who still believe in the old idol; grim, envious, blood be-spattered as she is the barbarous Country.
Knight and man-at-arms, limping and afoot, on horses weary and blown, they came at the summons archer and pike-man they came, a blood be-spattered company; many were they that staggered, faint with wounds, and many that sank upon the trampled grass a-swoon with weariness, but in the eyes of each and every was the look of men that triumph.
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