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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OLD SOLDIER, by PADRAIC COLUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: We wander now who marched before
Last Line: So it is to be an old soldier.
Subject(s): Soldiers
First Line: We wander now who marched before
Last Line: So it is to be an old soldier.
Subject(s): Soldiers
We wander now who marched before,
Hawking our bran from door to door,
While other men from the mill take their flour:
So it is to be an old soldier.
Old, bare and sore, we look on the hound
Turning upon the stiff frozen ground,
Nosing the mould, with the night around:
So it is to be an old soldier.
And we who once rang out like a bell,
Have nothing now to show to to sell;
Old bones to carry, old stories to tell:
So it is to be an old soldier.
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