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Along the hot and endless road	A
Calm and erect with haggard eyes	B
The prisoner bore his fetters' load	A
Beneath the scorching azure skies	B
	-
Serene and tall with brows unbent	A
Without a hope without a friend	A
He under escort onward went	A
With death to meet him at the end	A
	-
The Poppy fields were pink and gay	C
On either side and in the heat	A
Their drowsy scent exhaled all day	C
A dream like fragrance almost sweet	A
	-
And when the cool of evening fell	D
And tender colours touched the sky	E
He still felt youth within him dwell	D
And half forgot he had to die	E
	-
Sometimes at night the Camp fires lit	A
And casting fitful light around	A
His guard would friend like let him sit	A
And talk awhile with them unbound	A
	-
Thus they the night before the last	A
Were resting when a group of girls	F
Across the small encampment passed	A
With laughing lips and scented curls	F
	-
Then in the Prisoner's weary eyes	B
A sudden light lit up once more	G
The women saw him with surprise	B
And pity for the chains he bore	G
	-
For little women reck of Crime	H
If young and fair the criminal be	I
Here in this tropic amorous clime	H
Where love is still untamed and free	I
	-
And one there was she walked less fast	A
Behind the rest perhaps beguiled	A
By his lithe form who as she passed	A
Waited a little while and smiled	A
	-
The guard in kindly Eastern fashion	J
Smiled to themselves and let her stay	C
So tolerant of human passion	J
To love he has but one more day	C
	-
Yet when the soft and scented gloom	H
Scarce lighted by the dying fire	K
His arms caressed her youth and bloom	H
With him it was not all desire	K
	-
For me he whispered as he lay	C
But little life remains to live	L
One thing I crave to take away	C
You have the gift but will you give	M
	-
If I could know some child of mine	N
Would live his life and see the sun	J
Across these fields of poppies shine	N
What should I care that mine is done	J
	-
To die would not be dying quite	A
Leaving a little life behind	A
You were you kind to me to night	A
Could grant me this but are you kind	A
	-
See I have something here for you	O
For you and It if It there be	I
Soft in the gloom her glances grew	O
With gentle tears he could not see	I
	-
He took the chain from off his neck	P
Hid in the silver chain there lay	C
Three rubies without flaw or fleck	P
She answered softly I will stay	C
	-
He drew her close the moonless skies	B
Shed little light the fire was dead	A
Soft pity filled her youthful eyes	B
And many tender things she said	A
	-
Throughout the hot and silent night	A
All that he asked of her she gave	Q
And left alone ere morning light	A
He went serenely to the grave	Q
	-
Happy for even when the rope	R
Confined his neck his thoughts were free	I
And centered round his Secret Hope	R
The little life that was to be	I
	-
When Poppies bloomed again she bore	G
His child who gaily laughed and crowed	A
While round his tiny neck he wore	G
The rubies given on the road	A
	-
For his small sake she wished to wait	A
But vainly to forget she tried	A
And grieving for the Prisoner's fate	A
She broke her gentle heart and died	A

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