{"id":718,"date":"2016-10-06T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishlitvictorianmodern\/?post_type=chapter&p=718"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:07:08","slug":"returning-we-hear-the-larks","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-englishlitvictorianmodern\/chapter\/returning-we-hear-the-larks\/","title":{"raw":"Returning, We Hear the Larks","rendered":"Returning, We Hear the Larks"},"content":{"raw":"

Sombre the night is.\nAnd though we have our lives, we know\nWhat sinister threat lurks there.\n\nDragging these anguished limbs, we only know\nThis poison- blasted track opens on our camp -\nOn a little safe sleep.\n\nBut hark! joy - joy - strange joy.\nLo! heights of night ringing with unseen larks.\nMusic showering our upturned list'ning faces.\n\nDeath could drop from the dark\nAs easily as song -\nBut song only dropped,\nLike a blind man's dreams on the sand\nBy dangerous tides,\nLike a girl's dark hair for she dreams no ruin lies there,\nOr her kisses where a serpent hides.\n\n\u00a0\n\nThis item is from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (https:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/education\/tutorials\/intro\/rose); \u00a9 Poems of the First World War: 'Never Such Innocence'<\/span>, ed. Martin Stephen (Everyman, 1995)<\/cite>, p. 169.<\/p>","rendered":"

Sombre the night is.
\nAnd though we have our lives, we know
\nWhat sinister threat lurks there.<\/p>\n

Dragging these anguished limbs, we only know
\nThis poison- blasted track opens on our camp –
\nOn a little safe sleep.<\/p>\n

But hark! joy – joy – strange joy.
\nLo! heights of night ringing with unseen larks.
\nMusic showering our upturned list’ning faces.<\/p>\n

Death could drop from the dark
\nAs easily as song –
\nBut song only dropped,
\nLike a blind man’s dreams on the sand
\nBy dangerous tides,
\nLike a girl’s dark hair for she dreams no ruin lies there,
\nOr her kisses where a serpent hides.<\/p>\n

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This item is from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (https:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/education\/tutorials\/intro\/rose); \u00a9 Poems of the First World War: ‘Never Such Innocence’<\/span>, ed. Martin Stephen (Everyman, 1995)<\/cite>, p. 169.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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