To My Fallen Comrades

 

Grady McMurtry

 

3 March 1945

 

 

There is a certain agony of heart

We soldiers know when we look on our dead.

It is not pity, but a thing apart,

A sympathy of helpless hurt, instead.

 

We do not think of them as dead in vain,

In sober truth we hardly think at all.

Why should we? When the big guns speak again

The laws of Chance will judge, and Reason fall.

 

 

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