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dead that look so old

An' was so young an hour ago,

An' legs tied down before they're cold— These are the things which make you know.

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A thousand Places left be'ind -
An' Men from both two 'emispheres
Discussin' things of every kind;
So much more near than I 'ad known,
So much more great than I 'ad guessed
An' me, like all the rest, alone

But reachin' out to all the rest!

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If England was what England seems,
An' not the England of our dreams,
But only putty, brass, an' paint,

'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

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Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried
'em all

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There was Rundle, Station Mas-
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The strength of twice three thou-
sand horse..
The Word came down to Dives
in Torment where he lay:.... 182
The wreath of banquet over-
night lay withered on the neck, 153
The wrecks dissolve above us;
their dust drops down from
afar,

They christened my brother of
old-.

This 'appened in a battle to a
batt'ry of the corps..

This is our lot if we live so long
and labour unto the end
This is the ballad of Boh Da
Thone,....

This is the sorrowful story.

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Through the Plagues of Egyp' we
was chasin' Arabi,..
Thus said the Lord in the Vault
above the Cherubim,..
Thy face is far from this our war,
"Tommy" you was when it began, 338
To the legion of the lost ones, to
the cohort of the damned,.
Troopin', troopin', troopin', to
the sea:...

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Truly ye come of The Blood;
slower to bless than to ban;.. 93
Udai Chand lay sick to death.... 141
We have no heart for the fishing

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The Liner she 's a lady, an' she
never looks nor 'eeds
The men that fought at Minden,
they was rookies in their time- 811
The northern stirp beneath the
southern skies

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There is a world outside the one

we have no hand for the oar
We're foot slog - slog - slog
sloggin' over Africa!..

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We 're marchin' on relief over

There's a Legion that never was
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We 've drunk to the Queen-

There's a whisper down the field

God Bless her!

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We 've fought with many men
acrost the seas,.
We've got the cholerer in camp―

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There was a row in Silver Street

that 's near to Dublin Quay,. 281

it's worse than forty fights;.. 313
We 've rode and fought and ate

and drunk as rations come to
hand,......

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