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"Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. The poem is among those set in the ''War Requiem'' of Benjamin Britten. ==Text== :Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm, :Great Gun towering towards Heaven, about to curse; :Sway steep against them, and for years rehearse :Huge imprecations like a blasting charm! :Reach at that Arrogance which needs thy harm, :And beat it down before its sins grow worse. :Spend our resentment, cannon,-yea, disburse :Our gold in shapes of flame, our breaths in storm. :Yet, for men's sakes whom thy vast malison :Must wither innocent of enmity, :Be not withdrawn, dark arm, the spoilure done, :Safe to the bosom of our prosperity. :But when thy spell be cast complete and whole, :May God curse thee, and cut thee from our soul! 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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