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The Known Soldier

A Shakespearean sonnet by Liùsaidh

                       Truth is the first casualty of war

Remember them, we etch on walls of pain
We lay the wreaths, we offer our salutes,
Unnumbered crosses on some poppied plain:
Interred beneath lies mustard gas, …

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