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Except for something, something in the air,

Except for the weeping of the wild old women of Finistère.

How long will the others dream and stare?

The train went. The strong men of this region are all away, afar.

Rough and strong they are, proud and gay they are.

So this is the way of war. ..

Grace Fallow Norton

THE RECRUIT