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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SOLDIER'S SONG, by HERBERT TRENCH Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a soldier sing some trifle
Last Line: Out in the veldt, alone?
Subject(s): Boer War; Soldiers; South African War
First Line: I heard a soldier sing some trifle
Last Line: Out in the veldt, alone?
Subject(s): Boer War; Soldiers; South African War
I heard a soldier sing some trifle
Out in the sun-dried veldt alone:
He lay and cleaned his grimy rifle
Idly, behind a stone.
"If after death, love, comes a waking,
And in their camp so dark and still
The men of dust hear bugles, breaking
Their halt upon the hill,
"To me the slow, the silver pealing
That then the last high trumpet pours
Shall softer than the dawn come stealing,
For, with its call, comes yours!"
What grief of love had he to stifle,
Basking so idly by his stone,
That grimy soldier with his rifle
Out in the veldt, alone?
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