Yes, one sees that, & that cuts, Dave. But the lineation here seemed
a bit wobbly? As did the last lines of the first stanza.
Doug
On 29-Apr-09, at 6:12 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I was thinking of a Wilfred Owen phrase' bugles calling from sad
> shires'.
> This St George's Day parade had been organised to pre-empt the event
> being
> co-opted by right-wing bodies, yet the brass instruments and uniform
> prevalence couldn't but make me think to a hundred years back, when
> similar
> events would have been trooping the young who were to be the mown in
> Flanders fields a few years later.
>
> 2009/4/29 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Davy I misread as bugloss blowing in the field (much better methinks)
>> Love to the whole of Leicester and surrounding regions
>> Patrick poetaster first class,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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>> I was walking by the cathedral, coming out of town,and came to a
>> halt at
>> the
>> line of scouts
>> marching for St George. It was Sunday and this
>> was a delayed parade and my mind went back
>>
>> to the blue bound school log books the head
>> allowed me to quarry and the repeated thump
>> of reports on Empire Day. And I thought
>> of bugles blowing somewhere, and mud fields
>>
>> as bands now began a march a trumpet blow.
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
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> David Bircumshaw
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