{"id":977,"date":"2011-05-17T03:46:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T03:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=977"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:09:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:09:58","slug":"the-warrior-by-john-mccrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-warrior-by-john-mccrae\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warrior by John McCrae"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John McCrae by William Notman and<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Warrior<\/h2>\n

by John McCrae<\/p>\n

He wrought in poverty, the dull grey days,
\nBut with the night his little lamp-lit room
\nWas bright with battle flame, or through a haze
\nOf smoke that stung his eyes he heard the boom
\nOf Bluecher’s guns; he shared Almeida’s scars,
\nAnd from the close-packed deck, about to die,
\nLooked up and saw the “Birkenhead”‘s tall spars
\nWeave wavering lines across the Southern sky:<\/p>\n

Or in the stifling ‘tween decks, row on row,
\nAt Aboukir, saw how the dead men lay;
\nCharged with the fiercest in Busaco’s strife,
\nBrave dreams are his \u00a0the flick’ring lamp burns low
\nYet couraged for the battles of the day
\nHe goes to stand full face to face with life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Warrior by John McCrae He wrought in poverty, the dull grey days, But with the night his little lamp-lit room Was bright with battle flame, or through a haze Of smoke that stung his eyes he heard the boom Of Bluecher’s guns; he shared Almeida’s scars, And from the close-packed deck, about to die,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t