<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384348" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Come Back Clean</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the song for a soldier<br>To sing as he rides from home<br>To the fields afar where the battles are<br>Or over the ocean's foam:<br>'Whatever the dangers waiting<br>In the lands I have not seen,<br>If I do not fall-if I come back at all,<br>Then I will come back clean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I may lie in the mud of the trenches,<br>I may reek with blood and mire,<br>But I will control, by the God in my soul,<br>The might of my man's desire.<br>I will fight my foe in the open,<br>But my sword shall be sharp and keen<br>For the foe within who would lure me to sin,<br>And I will come back clean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I may not leave for my children<br>Brave medals that I have worn,<br>But the blood in my veins shall leave no stains<br>On bride or on babes unborn;<br>And the scars that my body may carry<br>Shall not be from deeds obscene,<br>For my will shall say to the beast, <br>Obey<br>!<br>And I will come back clean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Oh, not on the fields of slaughter<br>And not in the prison-cell,<br>Or in hunger and cold is the story told<br>By war, of its darkest hell.<br>But the old, old sin of the senses<br>Can tell what that word may mean<br>To the soldiers' wives and to innocent lives,<br>And I will come back clean.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384348" data-title="Come Back Clean de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="This is the song for a soldier To sing as he rides from home To the fields afar where the battles are Or over the ocean's foam: 'Whatever the dangers waiting In the lands I have not seen, If I do not fall-if I come back at all, Then I will come ba..."></div> </div> </div>

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