<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345788" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dying Soldier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes! raise me on your arm, Dick Dale,<br>My comrade old and true.<br>And let me of the glad earth take<br>One last and lingering view.<br>When yet a few brief moments more<br>Of this flittering hour have fled,<br>You’ll shed an old friend's tear, Dick Dale,<br>Above your comrade's head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We fought together, side by side,<br>In many a bloody fray,<br>From Malvern Hill's dark hour of strife,<br>To fierce Antietam's day.<br>And when again the 'long roll' calls,<br>For battle to prepare,<br>You will not fail the flag, Dick Dale,<br>But I shall not be there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You will not soon forget me, Dick!<br>I know it by that sigh;<br>I know it by those tears that shine<br>In your half averted eye.<br>But my dear old comrade's heart will swell,<br>I know with honest pride,<br>When he thinks that for the grand old flag,<br>His old companion died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cut off this light brown lock, Dick Dale,<br>For the girl that waits at home.<br>Yes! Hoping waits her soldier love,<br>Who never more can come.<br>'Twill soothe perhaps her bleeding heart<br>To know that watched by you,<br>The boy she loved, at least has died,<br>With one who loved him too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'll visit all the quaint old nooks<br>We sought when we were boys,<br>And thoughts of me will come, Dick Dale,<br>With thoughts of childhood's joys;<br>And when you reach the old playground<br>Where once you used to play,<br>You’ll not forget your friend, Dick Dale,<br>In his lone grave far away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345788" data-title="The Dying Soldier de Anonymous Americas" data-description="Yes! raise me on your arm, Dick Dale, My comrade old and true. And let me of the glad earth take One last and lingering view. When yet a few brief moments more Of this flittering hour have fled, You’ll shed an old friend's tear, Dick Dale, Above..."></div> </div> </div>

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