The Soul of the Soldier

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Excerpt from The Soul of the Soldier: Sketches From the Western Battle-FrontAll, the world's Coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account, All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount.Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' And to find out what the soldiers are worth to us we must somehow get behind their words and actions, and find out what they are worth to God, whose terrible wheel of war is shaping their characters.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.