are you sure Joe Green didn't write this?
KS
On 17/12/2007, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Man He Killed
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> by Thomas Hardy
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> Had he and I but met
> By some old ancient inn,
> We should have set us down to wet
> Right many a nipperkin!
>
> But ranged as infantry,
> And staring face to face,
> I shot at him as he at me,
> And killed him in his place.
>
> I shot him dead because--
> Because he was my foe,
> Just so: my foe of course he was;
> That's clear enough; although
>
> He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
> Off-hand like--just as I--
> Was out of work--had sold his traps--
> No other reason why.
>
> Yes; quaint and curious war is!
> You shoot a fellow down
> You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
> Or help to half a crown.
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