THE EFFECT
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The effect of our bombardment was terrific.One man told me he had never seen so many dead before."_War Correspondent_. "_He'd never seen so many dead before_."They sprawled in yellow daylight while he sworeAnd gasped and lugged his everlasting loadOf bombs along what once had been a road."_How peaceful are the dead_."Who put that silly gag in some one's head? "_He'd never seen so many dead before_."The lilting words danced up and down his brain,While corpses jumped and capered in the rain.No, no; hfc wouldn't count them any more ...The dead have done with pain:They've choked; they can't come back to life again. When Dick was killed last week he looked like that,Flapping along the fire-step like a fish,After the blazing crump had knocked him flat ..."_How many dead? As many as ever you wish_._Don't count 'em; they're too many_._Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?_"
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