<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507166" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Leveller</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Near Martinpuich that night of hell <br>Two men were struck by the same shell, <br>Together tumbling in one heap <br>Senseless and limp like slaughtered sheep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One was a pale eighteen-year-old, <br>Blue-eyed and thin and not too bold, <br>Pressed for the war not ten years too soon, <br>The shame and pity of his platoon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The other came from far-off lands <br>With bristling chin and whiskered hands, <br>He had known death and hell before <br>In Mexico and Ecuador.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet in his death this cut-throat wild <br>Groaned 'Mother! Mother!' like a child,<br>While the poor innocent in man's clothes <br>Died cursing God with brutal oaths. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Sergeant Smith, kindest of men, <br>Wrote out two copies and then <br>Of his accustomed funeral speech <br>To cheer the womanfolk of each:- </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'He died a hero's death: and we <br>His comrades of 'A' Company <br>Deeply regret his death: we shall <br>All deeply miss so true a pal.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</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=507166" data-title="The Leveller de Robert Graves" data-description="Near Martinpuich that night of hell Two men were struck by the same shell, Together tumbling in one heap Senseless and limp like slaughtered sheep. One was a pale eighteen-year-old, Blue-eyed and thin and not too bold, Pressed for the war n..."></div> </div> </div>

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