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UNKNOWN COMRADE by EMMA GRAY TRIGG

First Line: WE GIVE NO WORD OF GREETING
Last Line: WE FOLLOW THE SAME STAR!

We give no word of greeting,
No clasp of eager hand;
We meet as strangers meeting
In any foreign land.
Unspoken word and fleeting
Glance we understand.

Lost here in bitter weather,
We clutch the self-same spar;
Bereft of sail and rudder,
Wrecked sailors that we are,
Apart and yet together
We follow the same star!



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