Ernst Toller, 'The Road To The Trenches'
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war_poetryThe Road To The Trenches
Through grenade furrows
And filthy puddles
They walk.
Over soldiers
Freezing in a hole in the ground
They stagger.
Rats dart squeaking over their path
Stormy rain knocks with fingers of death
On decaying doors
Signal rockets
Plague lanterns…
From trench to trench.
By Ernst Toller
Translated from the German by Peter Appelbaum
Through grenade furrows
And filthy puddles
They walk.
Over soldiers
Freezing in a hole in the ground
They stagger.
Rats dart squeaking over their path
Stormy rain knocks with fingers of death
On decaying doors
Signal rockets
Plague lanterns…
From trench to trench.
By Ernst Toller
Translated from the German by Peter Appelbaum
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