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Names On Wood

  • 19-01-2004 8:00pm
    #1
    Kappar
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    In a field in France,
    On a tree standing on its own,
    I saw engraved,
    Some words which made me think.

    Our name is Patrick Byrne.
    We are a solider in the trenches.
    In the Somme.
    We fight for the future; we fight in the past.

    We lay by a tree, ready to die.
    Our eyes fixed on the sky.
    We thought about our life.
    We do not want to be forgotten.

    We took our bayonet.
    And engraved on a tree.
    The words that you are reading.
    They will live forever; forever we will be.

    This is our tombstone.
    Your memories our epitaph.

    The words I read were Names on Wood
    Dated:
    18th of November 1916


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