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CES PETITS FANTASSINS' by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR

First Line: YOU JEERED TO SEE THE SOLDIERS WHEN
Last Line: Of their old riddled flag!
Subject(s): SOLDIERS; DEATH;
You jeered to see the soldiers when
They sought heroic graves,-
Boys and small merry husbandmen,
Pale children of the stool and pen,
And branded galley-slaves;
But you stood back in awestruck wise
When homeward they did lag,
Death looking out of many eyes,
Red heart's-blood soaking through the dyes
Of their old riddled flag!


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