"You can't describe the moral lift,
when in the fight your spirits weary hears above the hostile fire,
Your own artillery.
Shells score the air like wavy hair
from a forward battery.
As regimental cannon crack
While from positions further back,
in bitter sweet song overhead
crashing discordantly
Division's pounding joins the attack;
Mother like she belches shell;
Glorious it flies, and well,
As, with a hissing screaming squall,
A roaring furnace, giving all, she sears a path for the infantry...."
~ by Aleksandr Tvardovskiy, from the poem "Vasily Tyorkin" 1943 ~
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