On the idle hill of summer
A.E.Housman
1859 to 1936
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On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer
Drumming like a noise in dreams.
Far and near low and louder
On the roads of earth by,
Dear to friends and food for powder,
marching, all to die.
East and west on fields
Bleach the bones of comrades slain,
Lovely lads dead and rotten;
None that go return again.
the calling bugles hollo,
High the screaming fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.