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Ripples of ribbons borne on high, / Bloodstains upon a brazen sky; / From cannon belching on the plain, / Fire that by fire is fought again. / A flash where steel by steel is met; / A fume of smoke and blood and sweat. / Sharp from the smeared and trodden gorse / The death-cry of a wounded horse.
Dust of a plain ground into red / By armies of majestic dead. / Gaunt shadows on the changeless sky, / A flock of vultures swarming nigh. / 'Mid ashes where a hearth has stood, / Children that cry aloud for food. / Where green the peaceful highways run, / A woman ravished in the sun. / And far across the reeking sod / A Nation sounding thanks to God.