Second-Lieutenant Spooner (unnerved by presence of a General inspecting). "The Company will move to the fight in roars. Form—Roars! Fight!"
ZERO.
("Zero-hour"—commonly known as "Zero"—is the hour fixed for the opening of an Infantry attack.)
I woke at dawn and flung the window wide.
Behind the hedge the lazy river ran;
The dusky barges idled down the tide;
In the laburnum-tree the birds began;
And it was May and half the world in flower;
I saw the sun creep over an Eastward brow,