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Their Frailty

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He's got a Blighty wound. He's safe; and then      War's fine and bold and bright.     She can forget the doomed and prisoned men      Who agonize and fight.     He's back in France. She loathes the listless strain      And peril of his plight.     Beseeching Heaven to send him home again,      She prays for peace each night.     Husbands and sons and lovers; everywhere      They die; War bleeds us white.     Mothers and wives and sweethearts, - they don't care      So long as He's all right.

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