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Boy Throttleman

Posted 2007-11-08 9:22 PM (#9049)

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Subject: A poem My Grandfather wrote WW1 veteran

A MESSAGE
We died— and yearned once more to see
The dear. Far distant land that gave us birth;
To feel again. beneath our rough-shod feet
The homelands sacred soil; unsullied earth.

We died—but having died have found
God’s peace, in rude-dug trench in plain and dale
And rest from all the mad, heartrending toil
That battle urged at brink of Marne and cross
the Vesle.
We died—to bring once more the boon
Of peace and safety to a war-worn world
We slumber, where we fell, content, serene.
Amid hushed guns and battle ensigns furled.

We died—and this earth where we fell
Is ours to rest in, ransomed with our blood
Here then let us lie; our dust the sign
Of world redeemed in Freedom’s brotherhood.

Nay—trouble not again this tortured ground
Whose scarce-healed scars our sacrifice enshroud.
These mould’ ring forms of ours, your once beloved,
Rest here before a world in homage bowed.
—E. G. Kastenhuber. JR.
Ex-Captain, Sanitary Corps, A. E. F.

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