The Send-Off
Wilfred Owen
1893 to 1918
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Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way
______ the siding-shed,
And lined the train with faces grimly gay.
Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and ______
As men's are, dead.
Dull porters watched them, and ______ casual tramp
Stood staring hard,
Sorry to miss them ______ the upland camp.
Then, unmoved, signals nodded, and a ______
Winked to the guard.
So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, ______ went.
They were not ours:
We never heard to ______ front these were sent.
Nor there if they yet ______ what women meant
Who gave them flowers.
Shall they ______ to beatings of great bells
In wild trainloads?
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May ______ back, silent, to still village wells
Up half-known roads.