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SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 3 by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT

First Line: I MET WITH DEATH IN HIS COUNTRY
Last Line: AND HE DID NOT LOOK AT ME.
Subject(s): DEATH; WORLD WAR I; DEAD, THE; FIRST WORLD WAR;
I met with Death in his country,
With his scythe and his hollow eye,
Walking the roads of Belgium.
I looked and he passed me by.

Since he passed me by in Plug Street,
In the wood of the evil name,
I shall not now lie with the heroes,
I shall not share their fame;

I shall never be as they are,
A name in the lands of the Free,
Since I looked on Death in Flanders
And he did not look at me.



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