“Trench stinks of shallow buried dead
Where Tom stands at the periscope,
Tired out. After nine months he’s shed
All fear, all faith, all hate, all hope.”

"Through the Periscope" (1915) [first published in 1988]
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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