These photos were taken by - and are copyright to - Alistair Learmonth.
This is indeed a false, false night;
There's not a soldier sleeps,
But like a ghost stands to his post,
While Death through the long sap creeps.
There's an eerie filmy spell o'er all —
A murmur from the sea;
And not a sound on the hills around —
Say, what will the silence be?
R J Godfrey
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