Anthem for Doomed Youth

Writers and Literature of The Great War, 1914-1918

There's a zone
Wild and lone
None claim, none own,
That goes by the name of No-Man's-Land;

Its frontiers are bastioned, and wired, and mined,
The rank grass shudders and shakes in the wind,
And never a roof nor a tree you find
In No-Man's-Land.