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IN TIME OF WAR by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: AS I GO WALKING DOWN THE STREET
Last Line: "THE LADS THOSE LASSES COURT ARE DEAD."
Subject(s): WAR;

AS I go walking down the street
Many's the lad and lass I meet;
There's many a soldier I see pass,
And every soldier has his lass.

But when I saw the others there,
The women that black mourning wear,
"Judged by the looks of these," I said,
"The lads those lasses court are dead."



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