"I cannot quite remember. . . . There were
five
Dropt dead beside me in the trench -- and
three
Whispered their last messages to me. . . ."

Back from the trenches, more dead than
alive,
Stone-deaf and dazed, and with a broken
knee,
He hobbled slowly, muttering vacantly:

"I cannot quite rmember. . . . There were
five
Dropt dead beside me in the trench,a nd
three
Whispered their dying messages to me. . .

"Their friends and waiting, wondering how
they thrive --
Wating a word in silence patiently. . . .
But what they said, or who their friends
may be

"I cannot quite remember. . . . There
where five
Dropt dead beside me in the trench -- and
three
Whispered their dying messages to me. . . ."
 

By:   Wilfrid Wilson Gibson