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Nine O’clock News
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| Nine O’clock News written by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson |
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"Only just one plane lost" – the suave announcer
broadcasts the news of the successful raid;
and the lone mother knitting by the hearthstone
Trembles, afraid,
As in her anguished sight
In flame a bomber crashes through the night.
"Only one plane was lost" – just five words spoken
glibly - and through the quiet of the room
she hears them as an iron clangour sounding
the knell of doom,
and sees within the fire
a broken body on a blazing pyre.
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