The War Correspondent

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1 Gallipoli
Take sheds and stalls from Billingsgate,
glittering with scaling-knives and fish,
the tumbledown outhouses of English farmers’
yards
that reek of dung and straw, and horses
cantering the mewsy lanes of Dublin; 5

take an Irish landlord’s ruinous estate,
elaborate pagodas from a Chinese Delftware
dish
where fishes fly through shrouds and sails and
yards
of leaking ballast-laden junks bound for
Benares
in search of bucket-loads of tea as black as tin; 10

take a dirty gutter from a back street in
Boulogne,
where shops and houses...

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