Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
1893 to 1918
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only ______ stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
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 ______ calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may ______ held to speed them all?
Not in the ______ of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the ______ glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows ______ be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.