Remembrance/Armistice/Veterans Day: Alfred Noyes’s The Victory Ball

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Alfred Noyes: Selections on war ==== Alfred NoyesThe Victory Ball The cymbals crash,And the dancers walk,With long white stockingsAnd arms of chalk,Butterfly skirts,And white breasts bare,And shadows of dead menWatching ’em there. Shadows of dead menStand by the wall,Watching the […]

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