<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414616" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Soldiers Dream. for Friend Thad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across the bridge over the stream<br> then down the path to the sea shore.<br> Where I was wont to sit and dream.<br> When I was young before the war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My country called and I obeyed.<br>I joined the ranks of fighting men.<br> Although I would have rather stayed.<br>I thought I’d soon be home again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did not know that I would die<br> along with many thousands more<br>Who lie beneath a foreign sky.<br> Far from their home for evermore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lay and bled amongst the dead<br> and as my life blood drained away<br>I wished that I could be instead <br>back home dreaming beside the bay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The path way leading to the sea<br>The wooden bridge across the stream.<br>I seemed to see them vividly.<br>A dying soldier’s final dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thursday,11 February 2010<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</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=414616" data-title="Soldiers Dream. for Friend Thad de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Across the bridge over the stream then down the path to the sea shore. Where I was wont to sit and dream. When I was young before the war. My country called and I obeyed. I joined the ranks of fighting men. Although I would have rather stayed..."></div> </div> </div>

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