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I THE FLUKE	A
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For two years you went	B
Through all the worst of it	C
Men fell around you but you did not fall	D
On the Somme when the air was a sea	E
Of contesting flashes and clouds of smoke	F
Your gunners fell fast but you got never a scratch	G
And once when you watched from a village tower	H
At Longueval was it between our guns and theirs	I
As men fought in the houses below	J
A shell from an English battery came	K
And tore a hole in the tower below you	L
But you were not hurt and remained observing	M
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And now	N
A casual shell has come	O
And pierced your head	P
And the men who were with you uninjured	Q
Carried you back	R
And you died on the way	S
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II THE CONVERSATION	T
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When we've greeted each other again	U
And you've filled your pipe and sat down and stretched your legs	V
You will look in the fire for a minute	W
And then you will say with a yawn	X
Well when do you think this damned war will be over	H
And I shall say nothing or something as empty as nothing	M
But I am forgetting	M
We shall not greet each other again	U
You will not ask that question again	U
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III THE DEAF ADDER	H
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Well it's no good brooding	M
The past cannot return	Y
They have killed him and buried him	Z
Many men as good as he have gone	X
They were good men even if one never knew them	A2
It is a just and honourable war	B2
He went in readily at the start though he hated it	C
And one would not have had him do otherwise	C2
And thank God he did the job well	D2
That had to be done	T
He has suffered with millions of others	E2
For the sake of the future's peace	F2
And ungrudgingly laid down his life	G2
In the cleanest of England's wars	H2
There is no room for regret here only for pride	I2
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Heart you fool lie down	J2
Cannot you hear	K2
My excellent reasoning	M
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IV THE LANDSCAPE	L2
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You said that first winter	H
That the landscape around Ypres	H2
Reminded you of Chinese paintings	H2
The green plain striped with trenches	H2
The few trees on the plain	M2
And the puffs of smoke sprinkled over the plain	M2
You said when the war was over	H
That you would record that green desolation	T
In flat colours and lines	H2
As a Chinese artist would	N2
That is what you were going to do	L
The plain is still there	O2
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V ANOTHER HOUR	H
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How many days we spent together	H
Thousands	H2
And now I would give anything	M
Anything	M
For another or even for one hour	H
An hour were it only of aimless lounging	M
Or a game of billiards in a pub	P2

John Collings Squire, Sir

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