The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-21

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now, to laugh at his former self; he smiled
that he had been.
All through, all day. forgotten
of oune travelled reach his sector The endless annoyanes
journey thought
back and back to him. remembers ones
were lost in that same thought While the soke went CURING S
his little head round kitchen Distance lent nchanmen
his memories Hour after hour Clara up in his mind and
clearly Clara.
got a platform
quay stepped the
lights and clarion calls at heart cock To all he lent radiance
and first to the great sweep of the evening sky there on the threshold
of night holder OF secrets he even began to understand to feel the
THE boundaries of habtabe close hand The world
had become mournul and dark full of evil He threaded his
way past great flat planes rectangular optnesth huge ammunition
Dump grmed by the eng light city of towering piles red
Shells yellow Shells black orpedo poured out there in stream by
lines of rr laundering in from the West through hours unt by
living death.
little farther monster solitary specimen of his
staring fxed of ee socket far point
the back of visible space.
sight offended soldier happiness
first time in life but he reganed his spirits.
Then weird ciythe supply services behind the lines
uniforms sheaves, piled
the goOm ambuanees built low and wide like collins for
whole military cemetery with
shaped An endless coming and going grumbng searngs ratings
something afoo attack the air. could smell coming
But the who went his pgmy through all these things
already way through village.
tumble shattered in dust Here and there among the
from the walls The church. with cut short at the base had been
turned into its body cut out in the living fesh
a cross, blood-red.
FLASH
around On height overhead running out there like promontOr
above the shaking ground beneath the flaming sky stood
They had to see the batteries at work. harrang the enemy
cOmbing them through, eircing them in
One of them said, "Thats grand!"
Then they fbackto rear, to quarters
him Yet everything fell before the strength of that love which
he stepped bsky if he haste and began
to hum
CTEPPING lightly passed along that brsted with
whitfield down. At this something which reminded
aged by squa half doorway
forced him to sing out louder in the darkenng light
lived there cellar, seeing him march gaiy
by humming and and then waving hand mstOok his
condition and thought we'll give him warnng mind the
poor Brighter. Don't bust fag-oder."
He crossed the reco trenches really lovely trenches looking quite
laughing expressions and gendarmestho professional soldiers who
did fighting than other class of citizen passed for active service
the road the for the fighting troops prevent leakage of
The trenches were known as rO trenches but the scrp
But lest this should not be known Negro began laughing when
soldier the teemng trench necklace
of teeth into shining prominence and the Negro abbed at the
with his bayone and pointed forward saying French soers
while this osome
line, listened inwardly for relaxed his
frown frightened up, sang aloud once more
ALITTLE further the real trenches ayone long burrow with
comfortable gendm and meraby domestaed Negroes
lying wait at the mouth of the hole To down into that never
into sudden twilight smelling thiy of earth;
off the world close to the terrible heart of things
bend apng twin walls prisoner held
ngw framed by the formess outlines of EARTH and the breath
buffeted body by the thrust of the walls
Finding himself this internal channel the
loudly than
hell let the plains Reverbeaon
increased enfo Rockets challenged the right and
Kissed and chandeliers
tumble which the parties
had andbgged for days. the eaten that ones
head level with the edge Of the world and the sky
with brianc and light streaming headong downward
CTo be Continued)
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