Bayonet Charge

• "Suddenly he awoke and was running"
• "raw in raw-seamed hot khaki"
• "dazzled with rifle fire"
• “Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
• “The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye”
• “Sweating like molten iron”
• “In bewilderment then he almost stopped -“
• “In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second?“
• “the shot-slashed furrows Threw up a yellow hare”
• “its mouth wide Open silent,”
• “King, honour, human dignity, etcetera Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm”