Anthem for Doomed Youth

Writers and Literature of The Great War, 1914-1918

". . . I know that I’ll stand
someday in the loneliest wilderness
someday my heart will cry
for the soul that has been, but that now
is scatter’d with the winds,
deceased and devoid.

I know that I’ll wander with a cry:
‘O beautiful men, O men I loved
O whither are you gone, my company?’"

Herbert Read 1893-1968