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120 Who died there.

No one could take the Argonne forest until the Americans came.

They have signed the armistice in the Forest of Compiègne!

XI

From Verdun north and east the armies of the New World are marching,

Towards Coblenz and the Rhine;

And before them, as they go,

Blossom innumerable home-made flags,

Blossom and blow in the streets of the villages,

Blossom forth from a thousand places of concealment where the enemy had never guessed they were hidden—

Like an amazing harvest of wind-flowers

Blossom and blow....

XII

Eastward through Belgium recedes the gray tide.

Like a foul ocean slinking from the shore

It raged on, yet could never overwhelm;

And after it the flood of civilization flows back...

In Brussels the hero-king comes riding on a great horse,