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First Line: Give me your hand, my brother, search my face
Last Line: And through your victory I shall win the light.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War


GIVE me your hand, my brother, search my face;
Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame;
For we have made an end of all things base.
We are returning by the road we came.

Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead,
And I am in the field where men must fight.
But in the gloom I see your laurell'd head
And through your victory I shall win the light.






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