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If I were fierce and bald and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

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Does it matter - losing your legs For people will always be kind.

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Soldiers are sworn to action they must win Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

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His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't you'

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In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

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Soldiers and dreamers when the guns beginThey think of fire lit homes, clean beds, and wives.

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The song was wordlessThe singing will never be done.

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And when the war is done and youth stone deadI'd toddle safely home and die - in bed.

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I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

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If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

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Soldiers are dreamers when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

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I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

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I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

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I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

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I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

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I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

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