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Siegfried Sassoon - `They`
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The Bishop tells us: `When the boys come back
`They will not be the same; for they`ll have fought
`In a just cause: they lead the last attack
`On Anti-Christ; their comrades` blood has bought
`New right to breed an honourable race,
`They have challenged Death and dared him face to face.`

`We`re none of us the same!` the boys reply.
`For George lost both his legs; and Bill`s stone blind;
`Poor Jim`s shot through the lungs and like to die;
`And Bert`s gone syphilitic: you`ll not find
`A chap who`s served that hasn`t found some change.
` And the Bishop said: `The ways of God are strange!`
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