Elegy for a Sergeant: A Poem for Voices

1ST NARRATOR 2ND NARRATOR Last 2nd Sussex 5th Sussex ARCHBISHOP Artois ATROPOS attack Aubers Ridge battle of Aubers bayonets beat em Berlin Black Watch Blighty blood breastworks Canterbury dead men’s decree Eastbourne enemies Fields of Golgotha Follow thy drum fought frontier fucking GERMAN OFFICER heroes join the Army King’s KLOTHO Infamy know my prize Lachesis and Atropos Lachesis speaks led my ragamuffins life’s lines Loyal North Lancashires machine-gun Man's Land marching mates Munster Fusiliers NARRATOR Dawn NARRATOR The lens Neuve Chapelle never numbered old battalion old French trench old sweats other’s Past the Ocean playing leapfrog Ragtime Infantry raining Randall Davidson rode in chivachye Royal Sussex Sergeant Henry Sheppard Sergeant Sheppard Sergeant Sheppard's thoughts Shakespeare SHEPPARD Stand Sir Douglas Haig Sir Nicholas Pelham sister snatched SOLDIER Good luck SOLDIERS singing South Wales Borderers staff-officer leaped right staff-officer's back SUSSEX SOLDIER Tacitus tribes twixt you twain victory villages waiting Welsh Regiment