<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374798" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Girl I Left Behind Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said: “I leave my bit of land- <br>In khaki they've entwined me, <br>I go abroad to lend a hand.” <br>Said she: “My love, I understand. <br>I will be true, and though we part <br>A thousand years you hold my heart'- <br>The girl I left behind me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I went away to fight the Huns- <br>No coward thought could bind me, <br>I sizzled n the tropic suns, <br>I faced the bayonets and the guns. <br>And when in daring deeds I shone <br>One little woman spurred me on- <br>The girl I left behind me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out there, in grim Gallipoli. <br>Hard going they assigned me, <br>I pricked the Turk up from the sea; <br>I riddled him, he punctured me; <br>And, bleeding in my rags, I said: <br>“She'll meet me somewhere if I'm dead- <br>The girl I left behind me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In France we broke the German's face- <br>They tried with gas to blind me. <br>In mud we bogged from front to base, <br>And dirt was ours, but not disgrace. <br>They carved me till I couldn't stand. <br>Said I “Now for the Lodden, and <br>The girl I left behind me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I came ashore, and struck the track; <br>For dust you scarce could find me. <br>The dear girl gave no welcome back- <br>Shed changed her names and state, alack! <br>“You've been a time, I must say, Ned, <br>In finishing your old war.” Said <br>The girl I left behind me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I flung a song up to the skies. <br>For battles gods designed me. <br>I think of Fifi's laughing eyes, <br>And Nami, dusk, but sweet and wise, <br>And chortle in my heart to find <br>How very far I've left behind- <br>The girl I left behind me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+George+Dyson">Edward George Dyson</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=374798" data-title="The Girl I Left Behind Me de Edward George Dyson" data-description="I said: “I leave my bit of land- In khaki they've entwined me, I go abroad to lend a hand.” Said she: “My love, I understand. I will be true, and though we part A thousand years you hold my heart'- The girl I left behind me. I went a..."></div> </div> </div>

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