Fairies and Fusiliers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) by Robert Graves

By Robert Graves

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This 1917 choice of poems makes a speciality of Graves's global warfare I stories and his friendships with such fellow poet-soldiers as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. The poems aspect the horrors of struggle whereas celebrating the bonds among infantrymen. integrated within the assortment are: “Goliath and David,” “When I’m Killed,” and “Letter to S. S. from Mametz Wood,” between others.

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He’d been at this game had my superiors on his trail long before I came along He must have known. And he approached this like I imagined he approached everything else in his life: with total confidence and honesty.  .  from the empty calmness of it to the darkness and its dangers beyond.

To take him to men who would make him a corpse and then make his corpse a public spectacle? Surely there was someone more appropriate to be counting his final breaths But I needed to give the old man his due. He’d been at this game had my superiors on his trail long before I came along He must have known. And he approached this like I imagined he approached everything else in his life: with total confidence and honesty.  .  from the empty calmness of it to the darkness and its dangers beyond.

Pointless. It was a chase that had been lost long ago. indd 45 12/01/11 5:19 PM for a way out demanding supplies to make the way Reminded them, in fact — these poor outcasts who’d never asked a single thing of the Heads of State who claimed ownership over all lands — that their duty was to the nation, to provide us with the materials to enable our removal of this individual who had likely lived peacefully amongst them for years Hong reminded them that they were as good as criminals themselves if they didn’t do their utmost to help us bring the old man to justice My job was to guard the old fool lest he escape.

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