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Friday, 28 September 2018

Poem - Charles E.W.Bean


What Profiteth?
By Charles E.W.Bean


The last long gun has spoken,
 The echoes die.
 The last sad trees stand broken
 On the yellow sky.

The last slow file is wending
 Away to the West.
 What gain from the long day’s ending?
 THEY GAVE THEIR BEST.

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