The dust that fell unnoted as a dew, Wrapped the dead city'… - Wilfred Owen

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The dust that fell unnoted as a dew,
Wrapped the dead city's face like mummy-cloth

Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was a British poet and soldier. Regarded by many as the leading poet of the First World War, he was killed 7 days before it ended.

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Native Name: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen

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All a poet can do today is warn.

And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.
And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid
Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further,
Showed me its feet, the feet of many men,
And the fresh-severed head of it, my head.

For by my glee might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping may something have been left,
Which must die now.

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