lirik lagu counter-attack by siegfried sassoon - the war poetry society
we’d gained our first objective hours before
while dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes
pallid, unshaven and thirsty, blind with smoke
things seemed all right at first. we held their line
with bombers posted, lewis guns well placed
and clink of shovels deepening the shallow trench
the place was rotten with dead; green clumsy legs
high~booted, sprawled and grovelled along the saps
and trunks, face downward, in the sucking mud
wallowed like troddеn sand~bags loosely filled;
and naked soddеn b~ttocks, mats of hair
bulged, clotted heads slept in the plastering slime
and then the rain began,—the jolly old rain!
a yawning soldier knelt against the bank
staring across the morning blear with fog;
he wondered when the allemands would get busy;
and then, of course, they started with five~nines
traversing, sure as fate, and never a dud
mute in the clamour of sh~lls he watched them burst
spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from h~ll
while posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke
he crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear
sick for escape,—loathing the strangled horror
and butchered, frantic gestures of the dead
an officer came blundering down the trench:
“stand~to and man the fire step!” on he went …
gasping and bawling, “fire~step … counter~attack!”
then the haze lifted. bombing on the right
down the old sap: machine~guns on the left;
and stumbling figures looming out in front
“o christ, they’re coming at us!” bullets spat
and he remembered his rifle … rapid fire …
and started blazing wildly … then a bang
crumpled and spun him sideways, knocked him out
to grunt and wriggle: none heeded him; he choked
and fought the flapping veils of smothering gloom
lost in a blurred confusion of yells and groans …
down, and down, and down, he sank and drowned
bleeding to death. the counter~attack had failed
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