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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

The Bayonet Charge

Charles Granville

A FOREST of steel leaves

Glints in the sun

And shimmers in the wind—

The thing’s begun!

A sea of faces set

Grimly to kill;

A pack of wolves that rush

To take their fill;

A yell that rends the air

And strikes the sky,

And stirs the dead who low

In silence lie;

A sense of clashing fray,

A bloody sun;

A mist of reeking blades—

And it is done!