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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936).  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.  1912–22.
 
Nightmare
By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
 
From “Battle”

THEY gave him a shilling,
They gave him a gun;
And so he’s gone killing
The Germans, my son.
 
I dream of that shilling—        5
I dream of that gun:
And it’s they that are killing
The boy who’s my son.
 
 
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