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The desert mocked at Time's Remorse,
While months waxed into years.
Who knows the strain that breaks the heart?
With grief and loss and fears.
The past has aged boys into men
-And red war ages most –
While conscripts cavil at sacrifice
To duty's unlaid ghost.
There's a heavy hearted laddie,
Weary and worn to-day,
Now in his third year battle
Biding the grim fate's sway.
Alf P.K. Morris
MED Sergt. 12th A.L.H.
Sinai Desert, 1/9/16
On Reading Anti-conscription speech in Melbourne.
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