“Faces of men in torture ... from my mind

They will not go away. The East lay still

In darkness when we left the town behind

Flaming to light the fields. We’d had our will:

We sang, ‘Oh, we will make the frost distil

From Time’s grey forehead into living dew

And break whatever has been and build new.’

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“Day found us on the border of this wood,

Blear-eyed and pale. Then the most part began