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Robert Graves - A Dead BocheRobert Graves - A Dead Boche
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To you who’d read my songs of War    And only hear of blood and fame,   I’ll say (you’ve heard it said before)    ”War’s Hell!” and if you doubt the same,   Today I found in Mametz Wood A certain cure for lust of blood:     Where, propped against a shattered trunk,    In a great mess of things unclean,   Sat a dead Boche; he scowled and stunk    With clothes and face a sodden green, Big-bellied, spectacled, crop-haired,   Dribbling black blood from nose and beard.
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