Mud three metres deep...
The horses, the poor horses!
and the dead England- and Empire-resenting Irish
mortar-bait
who fought allegedly for "plucky little Belgium",
and for whom no sickly-sanctimonious war-memorials
would be erected in their half-Free State.
[The three-month Third Battle of Ypres, fought around the village of Passchendaele (now Passendale, NE of Ieper/Ypres),began on the 31st July, 1917.
The bodies of 35,000 soldiers on the Allied side,
drowned in mud, were never found or never identified.]
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