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EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE	A
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A I was a Have B I was a 'have not '	-
Together What hast thou given which I gave not	B
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A SERVANT	C
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We were together since the War began	D
He was my servant and the better man	D
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A SON	E
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My son was killed while laughing at some jest I would I knew	F
What it was and it might serve me in a time when jests are few	F
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AN ONLY SON	E
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I have slain none except my Mother	G
She Blessing her slayer died of grief for me	H
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EX CLERK	I
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Pity not The Army gave	J
Freedom to a timid slave	J
In which Freedom did he find	K
Strength of body will and mind	K
By which strength he came to prove	L
Mirth Companionship and Love	M
For which Love to Death he went	N
In which Death he lies content	N
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THE WONDER	G
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Body and Spirit I surrendered whole	O
To harsh Instructors and received a soul	O
If mortal man could change me through and through	F
From all I was what may The God not do	F
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HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE	P
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This man in his own country prayed we know not to what Powers	Q
We pray Them to reward him for his bravery in ours	Q
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THE COWARD	R
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I could not look on Death which being known	S
Men led me to him blindfold and alone	S
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SHOCK	T
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My name my speech my self I had forgot	B
My wife and children came I knew them not	B
I died My Mother followed At her call	U
And on her bosom I remembered all	U
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A GRAVE NEAR CAIRO	V
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Gods of the Nile should this stout fellow here	W
Get out get out He knows not shame nor fear	X
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PELICANS IN THE WILDERNESS	Y
A Grave Near Halfa	M
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The blown sand heaps on me that none may learn	Z
Where I am laid for whom my children grieve	M
O wings that beat at dawning ye return	Z
Out of the desert to your young at eve	M
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THE FAVOUR	X
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Death favoured me from the first well knowing I could not endure	X
To wait on him day by day He quitted my betters and came	A2
Whistling over the fields and when he had made all sure	X
Thy line is at end he said but at least I have saved its name	A2
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THE BEGINNER	X
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On the first hour of my first day	B2
In the front trench I fell	C2
Children in boxes at a play	B2
Stand up to watch it well	C2
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R A F AGED EIGHTEEN	D2
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Laughing through clouds his milk teeth still unshed	B2
Cities and men he smote from overhead	B2
His deaths delivered he returned to play	B2
Childlike with childish things now put away	B2
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THE REFINED MAN	D
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I was of delicate mind I stepped aside for my needs	E2
Disdaining the common office I was seen from afar and killed	B2
How is this matter for mirth Let each man be judged by his deeds	E2
I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed	B2
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NATIVE WATER CARRIER M E F	M
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Prometheus brought down fire to men	F2
This brought up water	X
The Gods are jealous now as then	F2
Giving no quarter	X
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BOMBED IN LONDON	E
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On land and sea I strove with anxious care	X
To escape conscription It was in the air	X
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THE SLEEPY SENTINEL	G2
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Faithless the watch that I kept now I have none to keep	H2
I was slain because I slept now I am slain I sleep	H2
Let no man reproach me again whatever watch is unkept	B2
I sleep because I am slain They slew me because I slept	B2
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BATTERIES OUT OF AMMUNITION	E
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If any mourn us in the workshop say	B2
We died because the shift kept holiday	B2
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COMMON FORM	I2
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If any question why we died	B2
Tell them because our fathers lied	B2
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A DEAD STATESMAN	E
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I could not dig I dared not rob	J2
Therefore I lied to please the mob	J2
Now all my lies are proved untrue	X
And I must face the men I slew	X
What tale shall serve me here among	K2
Mine angry and defrauded young	K2
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THE REBEL	G2
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If I had clamoured at Thy Gate	B2
For gift of Life on Earth	L2
And thrusting through the souls that wait	B2
Flung headlong into birth	L2
Even then even then for gin and snare	X
About my pathway spread	B2
Lord I had mocked Thy thoughtful care	X
Before I joined the Dead	B2
But now I was beneath Thy Hand	B2
Ere yet the Planets came	A2
And now though Planets pass I stand	B2
The witness to Thy shame	A2
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THE OBEDIENT	B2
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Daily though no ears attended	B2
Did my prayers arise	M2
Daily though no fire descended	B2
Did I sacrifice	A
Though my darkness did not lift	B2
Though I faced no lighter odds	N2
Though the Gods bestowed no gift	B2
None the less	O2
None the less I served the Gods	N2
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A DRIFTER OFF TARENTUM	A2
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He from the wind bitten north with ship and companions descended	B2
Searching for eggs of death spawned by invisible hulls	P2
Many he found and drew forth Of a sudden the fishery ended	B2
In flame and a clamorous breath not new to the eye pecking gulls	P2
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DESTROYERS IN COLLISION	E
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For Fog and Fate no charm is found	B2
To lighten or amend	B2
I hurrying to my bride was drowned	B2
Cut down by my best friend	B2
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CONVOY ESCORT	B2
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I was a shepherd to fools	Q2
Causelessly bold or afraid	B2
They would not abide by my rules	Q2
Yet they escaped For I stayed	B2
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UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE	R2
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Headless lacking foot and hand	B2
Horrible I come to land	B2
I beseech all women's sons	S2
Know I was a mother once	T2
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RAPED AND REVENGED	B2
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One used and butchered me another spied	B2
Me broken for which thing an hundred died	B2
So it was learned among the heathen hosts	U2
How much a freeborn woman's favour costs	V2
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SALONIKAN GRAVE	M
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I have watched a thousand days	W2
Push out and crawl into night	B2
Slowly as tortoises	X2
Now I too follow these	Y2
It is fever and not the fight	B2
Time not battle that slays	Y2
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THE BRIDEGROOM	A2
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Call me not false beloved	B2
If from thy scarce known breast	B2
So little time removed	B2
In other arms I rest	B2
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For this more ancient bride	B2
Whom coldly I embrace	Y2
Was constant at my side	B2
Before I saw thy face	Y2
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Our marriage often set	B2
By miracle delayed	B2
At last is consummate	B2
And cannot be unmade	B2
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Live then whom Life shall cure	X
Almost of Memory	X
And leave us to endure	X
Its immortality	X
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V A D MEDITERRANEAN	E
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Ah would swift ships had never been for then we ne'er had found	B2
These harsh gean rocks between this little virgin drowned	B2
Whom neither spouse nor child shall mourn but men she nursed through pain	Z2
And certain keels for whose return the heathen look in vain	Z2
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ACTORS	Y2
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On a Memorial Tablet in Holy Trinity Church	A3
Stratford on Avon	B3
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We counterfeited once for your disport	B2
Men's joy and sorrow but our day has passed	B2
We pray you pardon all where we fell short	B2
Seeing we were your servants to this last	B2
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JOURNALISTS	Y2
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On a Panel in the Hall of the Institute of Journalists	Y2
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We have served our day	B2