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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Patrick Macgill1890–1963

Death and the Fairies

BEFORE I joined the Army

I lived in Donegal,

Where every night the Fairies

Would hold their carnival.

But now I’m out in Flanders,

Where men like wheat-ears fall,

And it’s Death and not the Fairies

Who is holding carnival.