Friday, January 3, 2003

Murmurings In A Field Hospital Comments

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[They picked him up in the grass where he had lain two
days in the rain with a piece of shrapnel in his lungs.]

Come to me only with playthings now. . .
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Carl Sandburg
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Brian Jani 07 July 2014

what a well penned poem i enjoyed the read to the end

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Jane Moon 15 May 2009

Catastrophically wounded in war, peace comes in the form of images of home and contentment. Before death, the memories of loved ones singing, gardens flowering, children listening to stories, simple home and its things, all give comfort.

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Carl Sandburg

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