{"product_id":"2940149200016","title":"The War Poems","description":"Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom\u003cbr\u003eShudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals\u003cbr\u003eDisconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots\u003cbr\u003eAnd turn dulled, sunken faces to the sky\u003cbr\u003eHaggard and hopeless. They, who have beaten down\u003cbr\u003eThe stale despair of night, must now renew\u003cbr\u003eTheir desolation in the truce of dawn,\u003cbr\u003eMurdering the livid hours that grope for peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet these, who cling to life with stubborn hands,\u003cbr\u003eCan grin through storms of death and find a gap\u003cbr\u003eIn the clawed, cruel tangles of his defence.\u003cbr\u003eThey march from safety, and the bird-sung joy\u003cbr\u003eOf grass-green thickets, to the land where all\u003cbr\u003eIs ruin, and nothing blossoms but the sky\u003cbr\u003eThat hastens over them where they endure\u003cbr\u003eSad, smoking, flat horizons, reeking woods,\u003cbr\u003eAnd foundered trench-lines volleying doom for doom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO my brave brown companions, when your souls\u003cbr\u003eFlock silently away, and the eyeless dead\u003cbr\u003eShame the wild beast of battle on the ridge,\u003cbr\u003eDeath will stand grieving in that field of war\u003cbr\u003eSince your unvanquished hardihood is spent.\u003cbr\u003eAnd through some mooned Valhalla there will pass\u003cbr\u003eBattalions and battalions, scarred from hell;\u003cbr\u003eThe unreturning army that was youth;\u003cbr\u003eThe legions who have suffered and are dust.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084653871344,"sku":"2940149200016","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149200016_p0.jpg?v=1763713561","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149200016","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}