The first stanza of this poem ends "And then the rain began -- the jolly old rain!"
The first stanza of this poem ends "And then the rain began -- the jolly old rain!" One character in this poem stares "across the morning blear with fog" before crouching, "dizzy with galloping fear / Sick for escape." Though "things seemed all right at first," the place was "rotten with dead," "and naked sodden buttocks, mats of hair / Bulged." Another man in this poem goes ($) "Down, and down, and down" and "sank and drowned, / Bleeding to death" as he "fought the flapping veils of smothering gloom." This poem begins "We'd gained our first objective hours before / While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes," and ends by noting that the title (*) operation "had failed." For ten points, identify this title poem of a collection by Siegfried Sassoon.
The first stanza of this poem ends "And then the rain began -- the jolly old rain!"
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