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More Songs by the Fighting Men If England calls this day—

Remembered not hardship

Glad-borne in War's dread grip—

Not the strain of training,

Or a year's campaigning,

But the joy of greeting

Pleasures, tho' but fleeting,

Entwined therewith.

If England calls this day—

May those who gave their love,

Who lifted me above

The petty things of Earth,

And taught me all the worth

Of splendid aim in Life,

Know I, 'mid all this strife,

Remember them.

If England calls this day—

The last sweet Twilight calm,

When guns withheld their harm

Awhile, and let me dream

Of Things That might Have Been—

Leaf-music in the trees,

And treasured reveries,

Shall die with me.

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