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The Price of Victory

Raemaekers, Louis, 1919, Chromolithograph
The Price of Victory
The Price of Victory
The Price of Victory
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Item no
33498
Title
The Price of Victory
Description
"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
Date
1919
Size
23.3 x 34 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.