THE ROAD TO MONTFAUCON
“M. P., the road from Avocourt
That leads to Montfaucon?”
“The road, sir, black with mules and carts
And brown with men a-marching on—
The Romagne woods that lie beyond
The ruined heights of Montfaucon—
“North over reclaimed No Man’s Land
The martyred roadway leads,
Quick with forward moving hosts
And quick with valiant deeds
Avenging Rheims, Liége, and Lille,
And outraged gods and creeds.
“There lies the road from Avocourt
That leads to Montfaucon,
Past sniper and machine gun nest,
By steel and thermite cleansed. They’ve gone—
And there in thund’rous echelon
The ruined heights of Montfaucon.”
Harold Riezelman, 1st Lt., C.W.S.