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272 LOUIS UNTERMEYER
Scream of the bullets' rattling mirth.
Sweeping the earth.
Laugh of the cannon's poisonous breath. . . .
And over the shouts and the wreckage and crumbling
The raucous and rumbling
Laughter of death.
Death that arises to sing, —
Hailing the Spring !
— Louis Untermeyer.
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