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 No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain
 * Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.

Of course they're "longing to go out again,"—
 * These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk,

They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed
 * Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,—

Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud
 * Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride . ..

Men who went out to battle, grim and glad; Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.

, Oct. 1917.