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... plain , Soldier - like and merry : Phrases such as camps may teach , Sabre - cuts of Saxon speech , Such as 66 Bully ! " " Them's the peach ! " " Wade in , Sanitary ! " Right and left the caissons drew As the car went lumbering through ...
... plain , Soldier - like and merry : Phrases such as camps may teach , Sabre - cuts of Saxon speech , Such as 66 Bully ! " " Them's the peach ! " " Wade in , Sanitary ! " Right and left the caissons drew As the car went lumbering through ...
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... plain , The turkeys screamed with might and main , And brooding barn - fowl left their rest With strange shells bursting in each nest . Just where the tide of battle turns , Erect and lonely stood old John Burns . How do you think the ...
... plain , The turkeys screamed with might and main , And brooding barn - fowl left their rest With strange shells bursting in each nest . Just where the tide of battle turns , Erect and lonely stood old John Burns . How do you think the ...
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... plain . Dear to the corn - land reaper And plaided mountaineer , - To the cottage and the castle The piper's song is dear . Sweet sounds the Gaelic pibroch O'er mountain , glen , and glade But the sweetest of all music The Pipes at ...
... plain . Dear to the corn - land reaper And plaided mountaineer , - To the cottage and the castle The piper's song is dear . Sweet sounds the Gaelic pibroch O'er mountain , glen , and glade But the sweetest of all music The Pipes at ...
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... low ! Thus , thought I , as by night I read Of the great army of the dead , The trenches cold and damp , The starved and frozen camp . 1 The wounded from the battle - plain , In dreary 83 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES ST. FILOMENA ...
... low ! Thus , thought I , as by night I read Of the great army of the dead , The trenches cold and damp , The starved and frozen camp . 1 The wounded from the battle - plain , In dreary 83 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES ST. FILOMENA ...
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A War Anthology George Goodchild. The wounded from the battle - plain , In dreary hospitals of pain , The cheerless corridors , The cold and stony floors . Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see , Pass through the ...
A War Anthology George Goodchild. The wounded from the battle - plain , In dreary hospitals of pain , The cheerless corridors , The cold and stony floors . Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see , Pass through the ...
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Arethusa arm'd arms army array banner battle beat blast blood boys breath Bret Harte bugles blown Cannon charge cheer Christ or Nietzsche Clusium crest cried death deep dread drum England's dead eyes F. W. Bourdillon fair fathers fell field fierce fight fire flag fought gallant glory hand Hark hath hear heard Hearts of oak heaven helmet helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre Herminius Highland laddie hills Horatius horse John Burns King land Lars Porsena light look Lord loud Marmion morn mountain Navarre ne'er never night noble o'er pibroch pride proud quoth rage roar rode rolling rose round rush Sextus shield shout slain smile soldier song sound spake spears stand stood sweet sword tears thee Thomas Campbell thou thousand thunder twas victory vigil voice W. E. Henley Walt Whitman waves wild winds do blow wounded