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AFTER COURT MARTIAL by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE

First Line: MY MIND IS NOT MY MIND, THEREFORE
Last Line: NOT I THE KING OF BABYLON.
Subject(s): BABYLON; MILITARY JUSTICE; WORLD WAR I; COURTS MARTIAL; FIRST WORLD WAR;
My mind is not my mind, therefore
I take no heed of what men say,
I lived ten thousand years before
God cursed the town of Nineveh.

The Present is a dream I see
Of horror and loud sufferings,
At dawn a bird will waken me
Unto my place among the kings.

And though men called me a vile name,
And all my dream companions gone,
'Tis I the soldier bears the shame,
Not I the king of Babylon.


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