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With Thoughts of Sergeant M Pensioner who died	A
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WHY Sergeant stray on the Ivel Way	B
As though at home there were spectres rife	C
From first to last 'twas a proud career	D
And your sunny years with a gracious wife	C
Have brought you a daughter dear	D
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I watched her to day a more comely maid	E
As she danced in her muslin bowed with blue	F
Round a Hintock maypole never gayed	E
Aye aye I watched her this day too	E
As it happens the Sergeant said	E
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My daughter is now he again began	G
Of just such an age as one I knew	E
When we of the Line in the Foot Guard van	G
On an August morning a chosen few	E
Stormed San Sebastian	H
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She's a score less three so about was she	I
The maiden I wronged in Peninsular days	J
You may prate of your prowess in lusty times	K
But as years gnaw inward you blink your bays	J
And see too well your crimes	K
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We'd stormed it at night by the vlanker light	E
Of burning towers and the mortar's boom	L
We'd topped the breach but had failed to stay	E
For our files were misled by the baffling gloom	L
And we said we'd storm by day	E
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So out of the trenches with features set	E
On that hot still morning in measured pace	M
Our column climbed climbed higher yet	E
Past the fauss'bray scarp up the curtain face	M
And along the parapet	E
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From the batteried hornwork the cannoneers	M
Hove crashing balls of iron fire	N
On the shaking gap mount the volunteers	M
In files and as they mount expire	O
Amid curses groans and cheers	M
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Five hours did we storm five hours re form	P
As Death cooled those hot blood pricked on	Q
Till our cause was helped by a woe within	R
They swayed from the summit we'd leapt upon	Q
And madly we entered in	R
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On end for plunder 'mid rain and thunder	N
That burst with the lull of our cannonade	E
We vamped the streets in the stifling air	S
Our hunger unsoothed our thirst unstayed	E
And ransacked the buildings there	S
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Down the stony steps of the house fronts white	E
We rolled rich puncheons of Spanish grape	T
Till at length with the fire of the wine alight	E
I saw at a doorway a fair fresh shape	T
A woman a sylph or sprite	E
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Afeard she fled and with heated head	E
I pursued to the chamber she called her own	U
When might is right no qualms deter	N
And having her helpless and alone	U
I wreaked my lust on her	N
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She raised her beseeching eyes to me	I
And I heard the words of prayer she sent	E
In her own soft language Seemingly	I
I copied those eyes for my punishment	E
In begetting the girl you see	I
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So to day I stand with a God set brand	E
Like Cain's when he wandered from kindred's ken	V
I served through the war that made Europe free	I
I wived me in peace year But hid from men	V
I bear that mark on me	I
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And I nightly stray on the Ivel Way	E
As though at home there were spectres rife	C
I delight me not in my proud career	D
And 'tis coals of fire that a gracious wife	C
Should have brought me a daughter dear	D

Thomas Hardy

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