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The Fathers

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Snug at the club two fathers sat,     Gross, goggle-eyed, and full of chat.     One of them said: "My eldest lad     Writes cheery letters from Bagdad.     But Arthur's getting all the fun     At Arras with his nine-inch gun."     "Yes," wheezed the other, "that's the luck!     My boy's quite broken-hearted, stuck     In England training all this year.     Still, if there's truth in what we hear,     The Huns intend to ask for more      Before they bolt across the Rhine."     I watched them toddle through the door -      These impotent old friends of mine.

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