On the idle hills of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far i hear the steady drummer,
Drumming like a noise in dreams.
Far and near and low and louder,
On the roads of the earth go by,
Dear to friends and food for powder,
Soldiers marching, all to die.
East and west on the field forgotten,
Bleach the bones of comrade slain,
Lovely lads and dead and rotten,
None that go return again,
Far the calling bugles hollo,
high the screaming fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow,
Women bore me, I will rise.
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far i hear the steady drummer,
Drumming like a noise in dreams.
Far and near and low and louder,
On the roads of the earth go by,
Dear to friends and food for powder,
Soldiers marching, all to die.
East and west on the field forgotten,
Bleach the bones of comrade slain,
Lovely lads and dead and rotten,
None that go return again,
Far the calling bugles hollo,
high the screaming fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow,
Women bore me, I will rise.
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