COUNTER-ATTACK
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
author of "the old huntsman"
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 FIFTH AVENUE
Copyright, 1918,
BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY.
All Rights Reserved
With acknowledgements to the Editors of
The Cambridge Magazine
The Spectator
The Nation
The New Statesman
The English Review
Printed in the United States of America
TO
ROBERT ROSS
Dans la trêve désolée de cette matinée, ces hommes qui avaient été tenaillés par la fatigue, fouettés par la pluie, bouleversés par toute une nuit de tonnerre, ces rescapés des volcans et de I'inondation entrevoyaient à quel point la guerre, aussi hideuse au moral qu'au physique, non seulement viole le bon sens, avilit les grandes idées, commande tous les crimes—mais ils se rappelaient combien elle avait développé en eux et autour d'eux tous les mauvais instincts sans en excepter un seul; la méchanceté jusqu'au sadisme, I'egoisme jusqu'à la férocité, le besoin de jouir jusqu'a la folie.
Henri Barbusse.
(Le Feu.)
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT NICHOLS | 1 |
| PRELUDE: THE TROOPS | 9 |
| COUNTER-ATTACK | 11 |
| THE REAR-GUARD | 14 |
| WIRERS | 16 |
| ATTACK | 18 |
| DREAMERS | 19 |
| HOW TO DIE | 20 |
| THE EFFECT | 21 |
| TWELVE MONTHS AFTER | 23 |
| THE FATHERS | 24 |
| BASE DETAILS | 25 |
| THE GENERAL | 26 |
| LAMENTATIONS | 27 |
| DOES IT MATTER? | 28 |
| FIGHT TO A FINISH | 29 |
| EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS | 30 |
| SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES | 31 |
| GLORY OF WOMEN | 32 |
| THEIR FRAILTY | 33 |
| THE HAWTHORN TREE | 34 |
| THE INVESTITURE | 35 |
| TRENCH DUTY | 36 |
| BREAK OF DAY | 37 |
| TO ANY DEAD OFFICER | 40 |
| SICK LEAVE | 43 |
| BANISHMENT | 44 |
| SONG-BOOKS OF THE WAR | 45 |
| THRUSHES | 47 |
| AUTUMN | 48 |
| INVOCATION | 49 |
| REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE | 51 |
| THE TRIUMPH | 54 |
| SURVIVORS | 55 |
| JOY-BELLS | 56 |
| REMORSE | 57 |
| DEAD MUSICIANS | 58 |
| THE DREAM | 60 |
| IN BARRACKS | 63 |
| TOGETHER | 64 |
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