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For we have thought the larger thoughts    And gone the shorter way.And we have danced to devil’s tunes,    Shivering home to pray;To serve one master in the night,    Another in the day.

He tried to spit out the truth;Dry-mouthed at first,He drooled and slobbered in the end;Truth dribbling his chin.

Never trust a white man,Never kill a Jew,Never sign a contract,Never rent a pew.Don’t enlist in armies;Nor marry many wives;Never write for magazines;Never scratch your hives.Always put paper on the…

If my Valentine you won’t be,I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

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All armies are the samePublicity is fameArtillery makes the same old noiseValor is an attribute of boysOld soldiers all have tired eyesAll soldiers hear the same old liesDead bodies always…