shrapnel-smoke

Updated: May 28, 2025

Then came his chorus: "Every time we are in the trenches, Crack! There breaks the shell." But his French has a verve that no literal translation will give. Let us take it as he sang it: "Crack! Il tombe des obus," sang the slight young Belgian, leaning out toward the two thousand men of many colors, many nations; and soon the sky in the north was spotted with white clouds of shrapnel-smoke.

Arthur Gleason - Golden Lads