| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Lament of the Soldiers | | By John Strong Newberry, trans. |
| | From “Poems by Paul Fort” Translated from the French
WHEN they were come back from the wars, their heads were seamed with bleeding scars; | |
| Their hearts betwixt clenched teeth they gripped, in rivulets their blood had dripped. | |
| When they were come back from the wars—the blue, the red, the sons of Mars— | |
| They sought their snuff-boxes so fine, their chests, their sheets all spotless showing; | |
| They sought their kine, their grunting swine, their wives and sweethearts at their sewing, | 5 |
| Their roguish children, like as not crowned with a shining copper pot: | |
| They even sought their homes, poor souls … they only found the worms and moles. | |
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| The carrion raven clamored o’er them. They spat their broken hearts before them! | | | | |
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