main street and other poems-第6章
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In sea and strait and bay。
Though they have lain for ages
Beneath the changeless flood;
They shall be white as silver;
But one shall be like blood。
'End of Main Street and Other Poems。'
The following biographical information is from the Occasional Notes
to ‘A Treasury of War Poetry'; 1919; edited by George Herbert Clarke。
Kilmer; Joyce。 He was born in New Brunswick; N。J。; December 6; 1886。
He had first joined the Officers' Reserve Corps; but soon resigned。
Within seventeen days after the entrance of the United States into the war
he left his journalistic career to enlist as a Private
in the Seventh Regiment; National Guard; New York。
Shortly before the Seventh left New York for Spartanburg; S。C。;
he was transferred at his own request to the 165th U。S。 Infantry;
formerly the 69th National Guard Regiment of New York。
He accompanied the regiment as a Private to Camp Mills; Long Island。
He was transferred from Company H to Headquarters Company;
and became Senior Regimental Statistician。 The regiment sailed for France
in October; 1917; and there he was placed in the Adjutant's Office
and made Sergeant。 Thereafter he was attached to the Regimental
Intelligence Staff as an observer; and showed great fidelity and courage
in the tasks to which he was assigned。 He was killed in action
on July 30; 1918; while trying to locate hostile machine…guns
in the Wood of the Burned Bridge; on the Ourcq。 His war writings
may be found in ‘Main Street; and other Poems'; and ‘Joyce Kilmer;
Poems; Essays and Letters'。
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