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THE COMPLAINT OF THE SOLDIERS, by                    
First Line: When they were come back from the wars their heads were seamed
Last Line: Them!
Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; War


When they were come back from the wars their heads were seamed with bleeding
scars,
their hearts betwixt clenched teeth they gripped, in rivulets their blood had
dripped,
when they were come back from the wars, the blue, the red, the sons of Mars,
they sought their snuff-boxes so fine, their chests, their sheets all spotless
showing,
they sought their kine, their grunting swine, their wives and sweethearts at
their sewing,
their roguish children, like as not crowned with a shining copper pot,
they even sought their homes, poor souls . . . they only found the worms and
moles.

The carrion raven clamored o'er them. -- They spat their broken hearts before
them!





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