Excerpt from Pierrot Wounded: And Other PoemsWounded and stricken in the pale moonlight! See, with the mud, The crimson ¿ood That, drop by drop, is fed by his young blood! A thicket shields his bed upon the ground. He will not listen to the cruel sound Of shells on high, That shrieking ¿y And rend the somber velvet of the sky.Frail, in his soldier's cloak, as in the gay, Poetic masquerade of yesterday.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.