Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 111.
“Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.”
"Dreamers"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)
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