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The Tombstone-Maker

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He primmed his loose red mouth, and leaned his head     Against a sorrowing angel's breast, and said:     "You'd think so much bereavement would have made     Unusual big demands upon my trade.     The War comes cruel hard on some poor folk -     Unless the fighting stops I'll soon be broke."     He eyed the Cemetery across the road -     "There's scores of bodies out abroad, this while,     That should be here by rights; they little know'd     How they'd get buried in such wretched style."     I told him, with a sympathetic grin,     That Germans boil dead soldiers down for fat;     And he was horrified. "What shameful sin!     O sir, that Christian men should come to that!"

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