<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575928" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dead Soldier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where the sword has opened the way the man will follow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Look! they came, the triumphant army!<br>Over yon hill see their weapons peeping!'<br>Still I spoke not but my wheel sent turning,<br>I closed my eyes for my heart was weeping,<br>My heart was weeping for a dead soldier.<br>Who is he who looks towards me?<br>''Tis no man but a gay flag flying.'<br>Red was his mouth and his white brow thoughtful,<br>Blue his eyes—how my soul is crying,<br>My soul is crying for a dead soldier.<br>'Kneel ye down, lest your eyes should dare them,<br>Kneel ye down and your beads be saying.'<br>'Lord, on their heads Thy wrath deliver,'<br>This is the prayer that my lips are praying,<br>My heart is praying for a dead soldier.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Best cheer the path of the men victorious,<br>For he is dead and his blade lies broken,<br>His march is far where no aid can follow,<br>And for his people he left no token,<br>He left no token, the dead soldier.'<br>The way of the sword a man can follow,<br>See the young child with his gold hair gleaming.<br>When falls the oak must the acorn perish?<br>He lifts the blade and his eyes are dreaming,<br>He dreams the dream of the dead soldier.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dora+Sigerson+Shorter">Dora Sigerson Shorter</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=575928" data-title="The Dead Soldier de Dora Sigerson Shorter" data-description="Where the sword has opened the way the man will follow 'Look! they came, the triumphant army! Over yon hill see their weapons peeping!' Still I spoke not but my wheel sent turning, I closed my eyes for my heart was weeping, My heart was weeping f..."></div> </div> </div>

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