“There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) American author and poet
East and West Poems, Part I, The Copperhead.
“Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone,
The armies who endured that sullen swamp.”
"On Passing the New Menin Gate" (1927-1928)
Collected Poems (1949)
Context: Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate, —
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own.
Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp;
Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone,
The armies who endured that sullen swamp.
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