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Campus Sonnets: 4. Return -- 1917

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"The College will reopen Sept. --." `Catalogue'.     I was just aiming at the jagged hole     Torn in the yellow sandbags of their trench,     When something threw me sideways with a wrench,     And the skies seemed to shrivel like a scroll     And disappear... and propped against the bole     Of a big elm I lay, and watched the clouds     Float through the blue, deep sky in speckless crowds,     And I was clean again, and young, and whole.     Lord, what a dream that was! And what a doze     Waiting for Bill to come along to class!     I've cut it now -- and he -- Oh, hello, Fred!     Why, what's the matter? -- here -- don't be an ass,     Sit down and tell me! -- What do you suppose?     I dreamed I... AM I... wounded? "YOU ARE DEAD."

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