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DEATH AND THE FAIRIES by PATRICK MACGILL

First Line: BEFORE I JOINED THE ARMY
Last Line: WHO IS HOLDING CARNIVAL.
Subject(s): FLANDERS, BELGIUM; WORLD WAR I; FIRST WORLD WAR;
Before I joined the Army
I lived in Donegal,
Where every night the Fairies
Would hold their carnival.

But now I'm out in Flanders,
Where men like wheat-ears fall,
And it's Death and not the Fairies
Who is holding carnival.



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