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Tomorrow will be your last day here Someone is speaking	A
A familiar voice speaking again at all of us	B
And beyond the windows it is inside now and autumn	C
On a wind growing daily harsher small things to the earth	D
Are turning and whirling small Tomorrow will be	E
Your last day here	F
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But not we hope for always You cannot see through the windows	G
If they are leaves or flowers We hope that many of you	H
Will be coming back for good Silence and stupefaction	C
The coarsening wind and the things whirling upon it	I
Scour that rough stamping ground where we so long	J
Have spent our substance	K
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As the trees are spending theirs How much of mine have I spent	L
Father oh father How sorry we are to lose you	H
I do not have to say since the sergeant major	M
Has said it the RSM has said it and the colonel	N
Has sent over a message to say that he also says it	I
Everyone sorry to lose us	B
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And you oh father father once sorry too I think	O
I can honestly say you are one and all of you now	C
Soldiers Silence and disbelief A fact that will stand you	H
In pretty good stead in the various jobs you go back to	H
I wish you the best of luck Silence And all of you know	C
You can think of us here as home	P
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As home a home we shall any of you welcome you back to	H
Most of you have I know some sort of work waiting for you	H
And the rest of you now being thanks to us fit and able	N
Will be bound to find something I begin to be in want	Q
Would any citizen of this country send me	E
Into his fields And	R
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Before I finalise one thing about tomorrow	C
I must make perfectly clear Tomorrow is clear already	E
I saw myself once but now am by time forbidden	C
To see myself so as the man who went evil ways	S
Till lie determined in time of famine to seek	T
His father's home	P
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Autumn is later down there it should now be the time	U
Of vivacious triumph in the fruitful fields	V
As he approached he ran over his speeches of sorrow	C
Not less of truth for being much rehearsed	W
The last distilment from a long and inward	X
Discourse of heartbreak And	R
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The first thing you do after first thing tomorrow morning	A
Is those that leave not been previously detailed to do so	C
Which I think is the case in most cases is a systematic	Y
Returning of issue It is all important	Z
You should restore to store one of every store issued	A2
And in the case of two two	H
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And I as always late shall never know that lifted fear	B2
When the small hard working master of those fields	V
Looked up I trembled But his heart came out to me	E
With a shout of compassion And all my speech was only	E
'Father I have sinned against heaven and am no more worthy	E
To be called thy son '	-
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But if I cried it father you could not hear me now	C
Where now you lie crumpled in that small grave	C2
Like any withering dog Your fields are sold and built on	C
Your lanes are filled with husks the swine reject	D2
I scoop them in my hands I have earned no more and more	E2
I shall not inherit And	R
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A careful check will be made of every such object	D2
That was issued to each personnel originally	E
And checked at issue And let me be quite implicit	F2
That no accoutrements impedimentas fittings or military garments	G2
May be taken as souvenirs The one exception is shirts	H2
And whatever you wear underneath	I2
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These may be kept those that wish But the rest of the issue	H
Must be returned except who intend to rejoin	C
In regular service Silence Which involves a simple procedure	M
I will explain in a simple group to those that rejoin	C
Now how many will that be Silence No one No one at all	J2
I see Very well I have up to now	C
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Spoken with the utmost of mildness I speak so still	K2
But it does seem to me a bit of a bloody pity	E
A bit un bloody feeling after the all	J2
We have bloody done for you you should sit on your dumb bloody arses	H
Just waiting like bloody milksops till I bloody dismiss you	H
Silence embarrassed but silent	Z
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And am I to break it father to break this silence	H
Is there no bloody man among you Not one bloody single one	C
I will break the silence father Yes sergeant I will stay	L2
In a group of one Father be proud of me	E
Oh splendid man And for Christ's sake tell them all	J2
Why you are doing this	H
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Why am I doing this And is it too late to say no	C
Come speak out man tell us and shame these bastards	H
I hope to shame no one sergeant in simply wishing	A
To remain a personnel I have been such a thing before	E2
It was good and simple and it was the best I could do	H
Here is a man men Silence	H
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Silence indeed How could I tell them now	C
I have nowhere else to go How could I say	L2
I have no longer gift or want or how describe	M2
The inexplicable tears that filled my eyes	H
When the poor sergeant said 'After the all	J2
We have bloody done for you'	H
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Goodbye forever father after the all you have done for me	E
Soon I must start to forget you but how to forget	N2
That reconcilement never enacted between us	H
Which should have been ours under the autumn sun	C
I can see it and feel it now clearer than daylight clearer	M
For one brief moment now	C
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Than even the astonished faces of my fellows	H
The sergeant's uneasy smile the trees the relief at choosing	A
To learn once more the things I shall one day teach	O2
A rhetoric instead of words instead of a love the use	H
Of accoutrements impedimenta and fittings and military garments	H
And harlots and riotous living	A

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