One mustn’t blame the press, the press has done
More than its share to help us win this war—
More than some other people I could name):
But what’s the good of war-books, if they fail
To give civilian-readers an idea
Of what life is like in the firing-line?...
You might have done that much; from you, at least,
I thought we’d get an inkling of the truth.
But no; you rant and rattle, beat your drum,
And blow your two-penny trumpet like the rest: