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    The poem describes four days and nights of bombardment from bursting steel shells that destroyed houses and kept men awake in fear of imminent death from crashing shells overhead. On the fourth night, exhausted men slept fitfully while shells continued to crash above. On the fifth day, a hush came and the men emerged from their holes to see white clouds moving silently across an untroubled blue sky above the wrecked earth.

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    The poem describes four days and nights of bombardment from bursting steel shells that destroyed houses and kept men awake in fear of imminent death from crashing shells overhead. On the fourth night, exhausted men slept fitfully while shells continued to crash above. On the fifth day, a hush came and the men emerged from their holes to see white clouds moving silently across an untroubled blue sky above the wrecked earth.

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    The poem describes four days and nights of bombardment from bursting steel shells that destroyed houses and kept men awake in fear of imminent death from crashing shells overhead. On the fourth night, exhausted men slept fitfully while shells continued to crash above. On the fifth day, a hush came and the men emerged from their holes to see white clouds moving silently across an untroubled blue sky above the wrecked earth.

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    The poem describes four days and nights of bombardment from bursting steel shells that destroyed houses and kept men awake in fear of imminent death from crashing shells overhead. On the fourth night, exhausted men slept fitfully while shells continued to crash above. On the fifth day, a hush came and the men emerged from their holes to see white clouds moving silently across an untroubled blue sky above the wrecked earth.

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    Four days the earth was rent and torn

    By bursting steel,
    The houses fell about us;
    Three nights we dared not sleep,
    Sweating, and listening for the imminent crash
    Which meant our death.

    The fourth night every man,


    Nerve-tortured, racked to exhaustion,
    Slept, muttering and twitching,
    While the shells crashed overhead.

    The fifth day there came a hush;


    We left our holes
    And looked above the wreckage of the earth
    To where the white clouds moved in silent lines
    Across the untroubled blue.

    Richard Aldington

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