Exposure Flashcards
“Our ______ ache, in the _________ iced east _______ that ______ us…”
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
“But ________ happens”
Exposure
“But nothing happens”
“Watching, we hear the ____ gusts ________ on the wire, like __________ agonies o men among it’s ______”
Exposure
“Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, like Twitching agonies o men among it’s brambles”
Exposure
“Northward, __________, the flickering ________ rumbles,/
Far off, like a full ______ of some other ___/
What are we ______ here?”
Exposure
“Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles,/
Far off, like a full rumour of some other war/
What are we doing here?”
“The ________ misery of ____ begins to grow…./
We only know war _____, rain ____, and clouds sag _____”
“The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow…./
We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy”
“__________ army”
“Melancholy army”
“Sudden ___________ flights of _____ streak the _______./
Less _______ than the air that shudders _____ with _____”
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence./
Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”
“Sidelong ________ _____ that ______, pause, and renew/
We watch them _________ up and down the wind’s _____________”
“Sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew/
We watch them wandering up and down the wind’s nonchalance”
“We ______ in holes, back on _________ dreams, and ____, snow-______”
Exposure
“We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”
Exposure
“Is it that we are ____?”
“Is it that we are dying?”
“Slowly our ______ drag home: _________ the sunk fires”
“Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires”
“_________ and doors, all closed: on us the _____ are closed,/
We turn back to our ______.”
“Shudders and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed,/
We turn back to our dying.”
For Gods _______ spring our love is made afraid;/
Therefore, not _____, we lie out here; therefore we’re ____,/
For ____ of God seems _____”
For gods invincible spring our love is made afraid;/
Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore we’re born,/
For love of God seems dying”
“The _______ party, ____ and shovels in the ______ grasp/,
Pause over half-known ____. All their ____ are ___ ,/
But _______ happens”
“The burying party, picks and shovels in the shaking grasp/,
Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice,/
But nothing happens”
“Tonight, his ____ will _____ on this ____ and us,/
__________ many hands, ________ foreheads crisp.”
“Tonight, his frost will fasten on this mud and us,/
Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp.”
