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I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine.
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Prelude, Stanza 1.

 

Rudyard Kipling

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Their dream had left me numb and cold,
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The images of those who died,
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I have fought my fight, I have lived my life,
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