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... Never had such a sight been seen For forty years on the village green , Since old John Burns was a country beau , And went to the " quiltings " long ago . Close at his elbows all that day , Veterans of 52 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
... Never had such a sight been seen For forty years on the village green , Since old John Burns was a country beau , And went to the " quiltings " long ago . Close at his elbows all that day , Veterans of 52 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
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A War Anthology George Goodchild. Close at his elbows all that day , Veterans of the Peninsula , Sunburnt and bearded , charged away ; And striplings , downy of lip and chin , - Clerks that the Home Guard mustered in , - Glanced , as ...
A War Anthology George Goodchild. Close at his elbows all that day , Veterans of the Peninsula , Sunburnt and bearded , charged away ; And striplings , downy of lip and chin , - Clerks that the Home Guard mustered in , - Glanced , as ...
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... close o'er it , which when rent , The earth is cover'd thick with other clay , Which her own clay shall cover , heap'd and pent , Rider and horse , -friend , foe - in one red burial blent ! Lord Byron . THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA , 1812 ...
... close o'er it , which when rent , The earth is cover'd thick with other clay , Which her own clay shall cover , heap'd and pent , Rider and horse , -friend , foe - in one red burial blent ! Lord Byron . THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA , 1812 ...
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... close and near , A lady's voice was in his ear , And that the priest he could not hear , For that she ever sung , " In the lost battle , borne down by the flying , Where mingles war's rattle with groans of the dying ! " So the notes ...
... close and near , A lady's voice was in his ear , And that the priest he could not hear , For that she ever sung , " In the lost battle , borne down by the flying , Where mingles war's rattle with groans of the dying ! " So the notes ...
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... pages of Whitehall , They are bursting on our flanks . Grasp your pikes , close your ranks ; For Rupert never comes but to conquer or to fall . They are here ! They rush on ! We are 119 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
... pages of Whitehall , They are bursting on our flanks . Grasp your pikes , close your ranks ; For Rupert never comes but to conquer or to fall . They are here ! They rush on ! We are 119 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
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