On the idle hill of summer
A.E.Housman
1859 to 1936
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Far I hear the steady drummer
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Drumming like a noise in dreams.
Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
East and west on fields forgotten
Soldiers marching, all to die.
Dear to friends and food for powder,
Woman bore me, I will rise.
On the roads of earth go by,
Far and near and low and louder
High the screaming fife replies,
Far the calling bugles hollo,
None that go return again.
On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Bleach the bones of comrades slain,