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Budging the sluggard ripples of the Somme,
A barge round old Cérisy slowly slewed
Softly her engines down the current screwed,
And chuckled softly with contented hum,

[They picked him up in the grass where he had lain two    days in the rain with a piece of shrapnel in his lungs
]Come to me only with playthings now

The first enters wearing the neon
Of virtue
Ceaselessly firing all-purpose
At everyone

At the end of a long-walled garden in a red provincial town,
A brick path led to a mulberry- scanty grass at its feet
I lay under blackening branches where the mulberry leaves hung
Sheltering ruby fruit globes from a Sunday-tea-time...