I have begun musketry. I have lectures on making maps.
Once a week we have night operations to get used to the sound
& sight of troops in the dark.
Once a week we have a march around Hampstead ending with a swim.
- Edward Thomas(1878-1917), September 3rd 1915.
So much a man has to learn
so that he can be allowed
to die for his country.
A map he has to make
to mark the place
where he would fall.
And once a week given
baptism in a river, without
hope of a resurrection,
for they are baptised
into the religion of war,
in which the wreaths
around the heads
of the fallen are made
out of their intestines.
03.09.2022
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