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quot and will supply details to guard the Blood River Bridge quot District Orders Lines of Communication South African War	A
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Sudden the desert changes	B
The raw glare softens and clings	C
Till the aching Oudtshoorn ranges	B
Stand up like the thrones of Kings	C
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Ramparts of slaughter and peril	D
Blazing amazing aglow	E
'Twixt the sky line's belting beryl	D
And the wine dark flats below	E
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Royal the pageant closes	F
Lit by the last of the sun	G
Opal and ash of roses	F
Cinnamon umber and dun	G
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The twilight swallows the thicket	H
The starlight reveals the ridge	I
The whistle shrills to the picket	H
We are changing guard on the bridge	I
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Few forgotten and lonely	J
Where the empty metals shine	K
No not combatants only	J
Details guarding the line	K
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We slip through the broken panel	D
Of fence by the ganger's shed	L
We drop to the waterless channel	D
And the lean track overhead	L
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We stumble on refuse of rations	M
The beef and the biscuit tins	N
We take our appointed stations	M
And the endless night begins	N
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We hear the Hottentot herders	O
As the sheep click past to the fold	P
And the click of the restless girders	O
As the steel contracts in the cold	P
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Voices of jackals calling	Q
And loud in the hush between	R
A morsel of dry earth falling	Q
From the flanks of the scarred ravine	R
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And the solemn firmament marches	F
And the hosts of heaven rise	S
Framed through the iron arches	B
Banded and barred by the ties	S
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Till we feel the far track humming	Q
And we see her headlight plain	T
And we gather and wait her coming	Q
The wonderful north bound train	T
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Few forgotten and lonely	J
Where the white car windows shine	K
No not combatants only	J
Details guarding the line	K
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Quick ere the gift escape us	U
Out of the darkness we reach	V
For a handful of week old papers	O
And a mouthful of human speech	V
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And the monstrous heaven rejoices	O
And the earth allows again	W
Meetings greetings and voices	O
Of women talking with men	W
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So we return to our places	O
As out on the bridge she rolls	O
And the darkness covers our faces	O
And the darkness re enters our souls	O
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More than a little lonely	J
Where the lessening tail lights shine	K
No not combatants only	J
Details guarding the line	K

Rudyard Kipling

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