Thomas Merton Poems

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1.
For My Brother - Missing In Action 1943

Sweet brother, if I do not sleep
My eyes are flowers for your tomb;
And if I cannot eat my bread,
My fasts shall live like willows where you died.
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2.
A Dirge

Some one who hears the bugle neigh will know
How cold it is when sentries die by starlight.
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