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Writer's pictureEdwin Janney

HERE THEY REST



This green grass glistening at us gleefully gaze

With life restored this dawn of time

Their tasty bodies tilt our minds

To think that sleep they never saw

When icy winter starred its gaze

At all who hailed the winters breath.


This lawn at least should noble feel

As from nipples gallant, their lips were planted

To tap their milk to make their green

As this day with pride, we hail this scene

And the noble teats that gave their milk

Were noble twice and gallant thrice.


What fountains pure their hearts did spill

Blood red and ripe their bodies poured

That nourished well this radiant lawn

Those gallant lads and men its source

Of who was told on plaques and stones

Of whom the birds in melodies sang.


In tunes and songs that sway our ears

Of them, they’re might the echoes rhymed

That live to tell their sons unborn

What noble cause their blood was spilled

For what cause they fought their very last

To save their glorious motherland


1987 Dedicated to a second world war battle ground monument in Moscow

Russia

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