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The Digger

Hamish Mann

He was digging, digging, digging with his little pick and spade,
And when the Dawn was rising it was trenches that he made;
But when the day was over and the sun was sinking red, –
He was digging little Homes of Rest for comrades who were dead ….

1915


Hamish Mann

from A Subalterns’ Musings (London: John Long, 1918)

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graveyards short poems war work World War I
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Hamish Mann1896 - 1917

Hamish Mann had written poetry since his teens, a talent which the experience of the trenches first developed, then silenced with his death at Arras in 1917.
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