Anthem For Doomed Youth Order Flashcards
What passing bells for those who die as cattle?
Only monstrous anger of the guns
Only monstrous anger of the guns
Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle
Only stuttering rifles rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons
Can patter out their hasty orisons
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells
;Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs
-The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells
;And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes,
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes,
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes,
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes,
The pallor of girls brows shall be their pall
The pallor of girls brows shall be their pall
;Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
;Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.