What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,--
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
These men escape the mockery of  religious rites ; given that most religions are ostensibly associated with peace and love. The prayers and bells that are associated with dignified death are denied the fallen soldiers. 
