<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413570" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Awaiting my next posting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hear a distant bugle calling<br>bravely as the twilights falling<br>The plaintive notes of the last post, <br> when I’m alone affect me most.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I remember those who fell<br> in defence of liberty.<br>Where they lie now no man can <br>but I remember vividly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lofty, only five foot two <br>and his best mate big Geordie Green.<br>Taff Thomas and Dai Williams too.<br>I wonder what they might have been</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had death not claimed them one and all<br> selected them quite randomly.<br>Each time I hear that bugle call <br> a sense of guilt falls over me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why was I chosen to survive <br>to wed and raise a family.<br>When they gave all they had to give<br> each death a separate tragedy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I live on. I know not why<br>death chose my friends, left me behind.<br>The only thing I know is I<br>Must keep their memories in mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The plaintive notes the bugler plays<br>that drift across the fields to me<br>Will mark too, the end of my days <br>when I rejoin their company.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7-Feb-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=413570" data-title="Awaiting my next posting de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="I hear a distant bugle calling bravely as the twilights falling The plaintive notes of the last post, when I’m alone affect me most. As I remember those who fell in defence of liberty. Where they lie now no man can but I remember vividly L..."></div> </div> </div>

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