<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414662" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tea Time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My watch says four its time for tea<br> but I’m not where I ought to be.<br>Instead I’m stuck in this foul trench<br> amidst the mud and slime and stench<br>Rotting remains which used to be <br>young English soldiers just like me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My country called I volunteered.<br> My parents saw me off and cheered<br>They were quite proud to se me go<br> “To teach some manners to the foe”<br>But now the smoke and gas has cleared<br>I’m on my own just as I feared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our forward trenches over run<br> I’m trapped behind the wily Hun<br>I would surrender if I could<br> but I cannot I’m losing blood.<br>I think my time is nearly done.<br>The only thing that I have won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A nameless grave like many more.<br> No one can calculate the score<br> of those who died on either side.<br>Involuntary suicide.<br>There are no winners in this war <br>a fact the generals ignore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I watch my life blood drain away.<br>Surprised to find I do not mind. <br>I will be pleased: I have to say.<br>to leave this rotten war behind.<br>A game I volunteered to play<br> I cannot stand another day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mud the blood and misery<br> which all around me I can see.<br>I leave behind without regret.<br>But I can see them clearly yet <br>My mothers friends all taking tea<br>I wonder if she’s proud of me.</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=414662" data-title="Tea Time de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="My watch says four its time for tea but I’m not where I ought to be. Instead I’m stuck in this foul trench amidst the mud and slime and stench Rotting remains which used to be young English soldiers just like me. My country called I volunt..."></div> </div> </div>

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