Robert Redfield, Jr. On the Ambulance. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

On the Ambulance

By Robert Redfield, Jr.


From “War Sketches” “… THE UPPER stretcher on the left-hand side,
I mean. Something felt queer behind my back.
Here, take my pocket light.” “You needn’t stop.
I’ll look…. He’s dead.”

“I thought so. I shan’t stop.	5
Dawn must be nearly here—the star-shells bloom
More palely on the sky. He must have died
Just now….” “I never saw so many stars.”