poem · by a contemporary
Rainbows on war clouds [microform]
James L. Hughes (1846–1935), 1919
Named on the page for Battle of Arras (1917).
machine-read Machine-read (OCR) from a scanned book at the Internet Archive: expect misread words and names. The scan itself is at the library.
draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.
Passages that name the battle; the whole collection is at Internet Archive.
9 April – 16 May 1917
Battle of Arras (1917)
THE OLD GERMAN BIBLE
My four sons now are fighting
To make the whole world free.
God bless my boys, and guide them,
And bring them back to me.Behind the lines near Arras
We lived in ‘‘dug-outs’’ deep.
‘Look here; don’t light your matches,
We’re tired and want to sleep.’’So spoke my weary comrades
In kindly threat to me;
Public domain. Text from Internet Archive.