Champs d'Honneur
by Ernest Hemingway
Champs d'Honneur was published in Hemingway's collection, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), retrieved from Wikisource.
Soldiers never do die well; Crosses mark the places, Wooden crosses where they fell, Stuck above their faces. Soldiers pitch and cough and twitch— All the world roars red and black; Soldiers smother in a ditch, Choking through the whole attack.
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