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