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First Line: On the first hour of my first day
Last Line: Stand up to watch it well.)
Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War


On the first hour of my first day
In the front trench I fell.
(Children in boxes at a play
Stand up to watch it well.)




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