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I	A
Dry leaves soldier dry leaves dead leaves	B
voices of leaves on the wind that bears them to	C
destruction	D
impassioned prayer impassioned hymn of delight	E
of the gladly doomed to die Stridor of beasts	F
stridor of men praises of lust and battle	G
numberless as waves the waves singing	H
to the wind that bears them down	I
	-
Under Osiris	F
him of the Egyptian priests Osynmandyas the King	H
easward into Asia we passed swarmed over Bactria	J
three thousand years before Christ	K
	-
The history of war	J
is the history of mankind	L
So many dead	M
look at them there in the dark look at them going	H
the longest parade of all the parade of the dead	M
between then and now seven thousand million dead	M
dead on the filed of battle	G
	-
The people which is not ready	N
to guard its gods and its household gods with the	O
sword	P
who knows but it will find itself with nothing	H
save honour to defend	Q
	-
Consider soldier	J
whatever name you go by doughboy dogface	F
marine or tommy God's mercenary consider our lot	R
in the days if the single combat You have been seen on the	O
seashore	J
In the offshore wind blown backward a wavecrest	R
windwhipped and quivering borne helpless and	R
briefly	N
to fall underfoot of an oncoming seawall foam	S
smothered	R
once more to recede wind thwarted again thus	F
deathward	R
the battle lines whelmed and divided The darkling	H
battalions	F
locked arms in chaos the bravest the heroes	F
kept in the forefront' and this line once broken	D
our army was done for	J
	-
II	A
In the new city of marble and bright stone	T
the city named for a captain in the capital	G
under the solemn echoing dome in the still tomb	U
lies an unknown soldier	J
	-
In the brown city	R
old and shabby by the muddy Thames in the gaunt	R
avenue	C
where Romans blessed with Latin the oyster and the	O
primrose	F
the stone shaft speaks of another Those who pass	F
bare their heads in the rain pausing to listen	D
	-
Across grey water red poppies on cliffs and chalk	H
Hidden under the arch in the city of light	R
the city beloved of Abelard rests a third	R
nameless as those but the fluttering flame	V
substituting for a name	V
	-
Three unknown soldiers	F
three let us say out of many On the proud arch	W
names shine like stars the names of battles and	R
victories	F
but never the name of the man you the unknown	T
Down there runs the river under dark walls of rock	H
parapets of rock stone steps that green to the water	J
	-
There they fished up in the twilight another unknown	T
the one they call	X
L'Inconnue de la Seine	R
drowned	R
hands	F
drowned hair drowned eyes masked like marble she	R
listens	F
to the drip drop secret of silence and the pale eyelids	F
enclose and disclose what they know the illusion	D
found like fire under Lethe Devotion here sainted	R
the love here deathless The strong purpose turns	F
from the daggered lamplight from the little light to	C
the lesser	J
from stone to stone stepping from the nex to the lasy	F
heartbeat and footstep even to the sacred to the last	R
	-
Love devotion sacrifice death can we call her	J
unknown	T
who has not unknown to herself more Whose love	Y
lives still	Z
as if death itself were alive and divine	A2
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And you the soldier	J
you who are dead is it not so with you	C
Love devotion sacrifice death can we call you	C
unknown	T
you who knew what you did The soldier is crystal	G
crystal of man clear heart clear duty clear purpose	F
No soldier can be unknown Only he is unknown	T
who is unknown to himself	B2

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