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    "text": "Harry Wilmans! You who fell in a swamp",
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    "text": "Near Manila, following the flag,",
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    "text": "You were not wounded by the greatness of a dream,",
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    "text": "Or destroyed by ineffectual work,",
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    "text": "Or driven to madness by Satanic snags;",
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    "text": "You were not torn by aching nerves,",
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    "text": "Nor did you carry great wounds to your old age.",
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    "text": "You did not starve, for the government fed you.",
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    "text": "You did not suffer yet cry “forward”",
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    "text": "To an army which you led",
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    "text": "Against a foe with mocking smiles,",
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    "text": "Sharper than bayonets. You were not smitten down",
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    "text": "By invisible bombs. You were not rejected",
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    "text": "By those for whom you were defeated.",
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    "text": "You did not eat the savorless bread",
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    "text": "Which a poor alchemy had made from ideals.",
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    "text": "You went to Manila, Harry Wilmans,",
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    "text": "While I enlisted in the bedraggled army",
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    "text": "Of bright-eyed, divine youths,",
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    "text": "Who surged forward, who were driven back and fell,",
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    "text": "Sick, broken, crying, shorn of faith,",
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    "text": "Following the flag of the Kingdom of Heaven.",
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    "text": "You and I, Harry Wilmans, have fallen",
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    "text": "In our several ways, not knowing",
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    "text": "Good from bad, defeat from victory,",
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    "text": "Nor what face it is that smiles",
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    "text": "Behind the demoniac mask.",
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