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The Price of Victory
Raemaekers, Louis, 1919, Chromolithograph
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The Price of Victory
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Title
The Price of Victory
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"Lift not thy trumpet, Victory, to the sky,
Nor through battalions nor batteries blow,
But over hollows, full of old wire, go,
Where, among dregs of War, the long-dead lie,
With wasted iron that the guns passed by,
When they went eastwards like a tide at flow;
There blow thy trumpet that the dead may know,
Who waited for thy coming, Victory.
It is not we that have deserved thy wreath;
They waited there among the towering weeds,
The deep mud burned under the termites' breath,
And winter cracked the bones that no man heeds;
hundreds of nights flamed by; the seasons passed,
And thou hast come to them at last, at last!
- Captain Lord Dunsany."
Artist / maker
Raemaekers, Louis
Date
1919
Size
23.3 x 34 cm
Type
Chromolithograph
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
.
The
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
have published a book of his works entitled, 'Louis Raemaekers - with pen and pencil as a weapon'.
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