It was too much for human endurance.

Every private soldier knew that such things as this could not last.

They were willing to ring down the curtain, put out the footlights and go home.

There was no hope in the future for them.
THEN COMES THE FARCE From this time forward until the close of the war, everything was a farce as to generalship.

The tragedy had been played, the glory of war had departed.