For Our Veterans

Nov 11, 2007 21:48

This is from A.E. Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad':

XXII

The street sounds to the soldiers' tread,
And out we troop to see:
A single redcoat turns his head,
He turns and looks at me.

My man, from sky to sky's so far,
We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;

What thoughts at heart have you and I
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veteran's day, housman

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grail76 November 12 2007, 13:06:53 UTC
Nice to see you're still about.

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