<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567619" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Somme</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The noise of the battle is over<br> And silence descends on the land<br> There's peace on the face of that soldier<br> We see lying there on the sand<br> No sound from those pale lips are uttered,<br> Or flicker from eyelids half-closed,<br> Blonde hair blowing soft in the chill wind<br> As if for a painting, he'd posed,<br> Where did you come from young soldier?<br> Who waited for you to come home<br> From the war to end wars? as they promised<br> Back to land from which you'd ne'er roam.<br> Perhaps there's a letter you cherished<br> In the pocket right next to your heart.<br> And a photo you gazed at with longing<br> So often since you were apart.<br> It was on the TV that we saw you<br> With an old man, who cried bitter tears<br> As he spoke of the comrades he'd lost there,<br> And the mud, and the pain, and the fears.<br> It's many long years since you fell there<br> But the world's never stopped talking 'bomb'<br> We haven't learnt much in between , lad,<br> Poor handsome young man on the Somme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Esther+Barry">Esther Barry</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=567619" data-title="On The Somme de Esther Barry" data-description="The noise of the battle is over And silence descends on the land There's peace on the face of that soldier We see lying there on the sand No sound from those pale lips are uttered, Or flicker from eyelids half-closed, Blonde hair blowing sof..."></div> </div> </div>

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