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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Nightmare

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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—

I dream of that gun:

And it’s they that are killing

The boy who’s my son.