Best Shellfire Poems

Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed 
   the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills) 
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
   From out of the Valley of Mizpah 
to the fires of perdition at the gates of Sodom
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In you the Dogs of War unleashed again
  an Expeditionary Force by sea,
and in the ground in years fourscore and ten
  lie bones of Empire and Admiralty.
How in muddy trench riflemen joining
  charged the lines on Ottoman ancient land,
and loud shellfire through...

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I think sometimes of the life there once was:
Of a time when birds sang throughout the woods
And insects flitted between the flowers.

But when greedy hands infected the land,
The beauty was ruined; life lost its home— 
And the gentle calls of sparrows and swifts
Were quickly replaced...

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