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56 And Selflessness, were as an unknown thought, And "Hell!" and "Shell!" were yapped at Lovingkindness.

The feeble folk at home had grown full-used To "dug-outs," "snipers," "Huns," from the war-adept In the mornings heard, and at evetides perused; To day-dreamt men in millions, when they mused— To nightmare-men in millions when they slept.

Waking to wish existence timeless, null, Sirius they watched above where armies fell; He seemed to check his fapping when, in the lull Of night a boom came thencewise, like the dull Plunge of a stone dropped into some deep well.