BOOK I

ARDOURS AND ENDURANCES

THE SUMMONS: PAGE I. To---- 4 II. The Past 5 III. The Reckoning 6

FAREWELL TO PLACE OF COMFORT 7

THE APPROACH: I. In the Grass: Halt by Roadside 12 II. The Day's March 13 III. Nearer 15

BATTLE: I. Noon 18 II. Night Bombardment 19 III. Comrades: An Episode 22 IV. Behind the Lines: Night, France 27 V. At the Wars 28 VI. Out of Trenches: The Barn, Twilight 30 VII. Battery moving up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn 32 VIII. Eve of Assault: Infantry going down to Trenches 35 IX. The Assault 37 X. The Last Morning 42 XI. Fulfilment 44

THE DEAD: I. The Burial in Flanders 46 II. Boy 48 III. Plaint of Friendship by Death Broken 51 IV. By the Wood 55

THE AFTERMATH: I. At the Ebb 58 II. Alone 60 III. Thanksgiving 61 IV. Annihilated 62 V. Shut of Night 63 VI. The Full Heart 65 VII. Sonnet: Our Dead 66 VIII. Deliverance 67