AT A CALVARY NEAR THE ANCRE
Wilfred Owen
One ever hangs where shelled roads part.
In this war He too lost a limb,
But His disciples hide apart;
And now the Soldiers bear with Him.
Near Golgotha strolls many a priest,
And in their faces there is pride
That they were flesh-marked by the Beast
By whom the gentle Christ's denied.
The scribes on all the people shove
And bawl allegiance to the state,
But they who love the greater love
Lay down their life; they do not hate.
A calvary is a statue of the crucified Christ. Many of these were erected at crossroads along the Western Front.
The River Ancre is a tributary of the Somme and runs through the heart of the Somme battlefields of the First World War.
Poetry Atlas has many poems about the Somme.
