Page:Sassoon, Siegfried - Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918).djvu/25

 And started blazing wildly. . . then a bang Crumpled and spun him sideways, knocked him out To grunt and wriggle: none heeded him; he choked And fought the flapping veils of smothering gloom, Lost in a blurred confusion of yells and groans. . . Down, and down, and down, he sank and drowned, Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed.