<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">They</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The Bishop tells us: 'When the boys come back</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">They will not be the same; for they'll have fought</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">In a just cause: they lead the last attack</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">On Anti-Christ; their comrades' blood has bought</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">New right to breed an honourable race,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">They have challenged Death and dared him face to face.'</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">'We're none of us the same!' the boys reply.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">'For George lost both his legs; and Bill's stone blind;</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Poor Jim's shot through the lungs and like to die;</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">And Bert's gone syphilitic: you'll not find</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">A chap who's served that hasn't found some change.'</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">And the Bishop said: 'The ways of God are strange.'</div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""> - Siegfried Sassoon</div></body></html>