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130 than the flash of vision that comes to him as he looks on 'An Old Boot in a Ditch,' and reflects that

nor more characteristic of him than that quaint fantasy of the sportsmen killed in battle passing through the open gates into Paradise, and—

He could lay bare the beastly and brutal facts of war in 'A Soldier' and in 'France, 1917,' but the gay, sad 'Song of Amiens' tells you that

And if 'France, 1917,' is full of the