Thanks, Mike. Phil
>From: Mike Horwood <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: The Unknown Soldier
>Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:36:23 +0200
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>Hello Philip,
> This is really excellent. There is nothing I would suggest
>changing.
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>Best wishes, Mike
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>--- Alkuperäinen viesti ---
> The Unknown Soldier
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> for Copland Smith
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>Something dramatic ought to happen here
>at this fallen envelope of stone
>perimeter’d with weary poppy feet -
>The Angel of Mons perhaps appear.
>Or the man himself, promoted pawn
>of the sacrifice, dying to be the decent-
>minded youth who’d murder a beer
>and, shot of this musty chequered zone,
>enjoy an hour of footie in the street.
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>And so we shuffle blankly out
>spent as cartridges. Big Ben bound
>we steel ourselves for one more bout
>of seeing London in the round -
>its peace campaign on the roundabout.
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