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Behind us lay the homely shore     With youthful memories aureoled;     A sky of dazzling blue before,     We sailed a sea of molten gold.     To our old haven we return;     By smoky hills as grey as mud     We see the sullen sunset burn     Malignant on a lake of blood.     Yes, we return: but memory roams     A foul, bleak age of pain that yields     The smoke and flame of ruined homes,     The muck of cannon-pitted fields.

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