Ernst Toller: To the Trench

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts German writers on peace and war Ernst Toller: Corpses In The Woods ==== Ernst TollerTo the Trench Through shell-holes,puddles of mud,they trudge.Over frozenmen in foxholesthey stumble. Rats dart whistling across the distances.Dead fingers rain down& tap on rotting doors.Signal-rockets,corpse-lanterns… To the ditch, to the ditch.