Compiled from:
Anthem for Doomed Youth, The Soldier, Does it Matter?, Here Dead We Lie, and High Flight.
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We did not choose
Only the monstrous anger of the guns
Or the demented choirs of wailing shells.
I have slipped the surly bonds
And no one will worry a bit.
We were young on laughter-silvered wings
High in the sunlit silence.
Nothing much to lose,
The tenderness of patient minds,
and hearts at peace.
You have not dreamed,
I've chased the shouting wind on footless halls of air.
While with silent dreams happy as her day,
Turn my face to the light,
And you need not show that you mind.
People will always be delirious, burning blue
To live and shame the land, blest by suns of home,
A pulse in the eternal mind
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-bye.
Here dead we lie.
