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From: Janice <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] "MAN-AT-ARMS"
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:38:36 -0500
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Hi Julie/Ken/Listers,
It is supposedly an anonymous poem written by one who had slogged through
the ruins of Ieper, out the Menin Gate, and along the Menin Road to
Passchendaele.

Janice
USA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Robinson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:17 PM
Subject: [WW1] "MAN-AT-ARMS"


> Dear List,
>
> Does anyone know the author/provenance of a poem that begins:
>
> What are you guarding, Man-at-Arms?
> Why do you watch and wait?"
> "I guard the graves," said the Man-at-Arms,
> I guard the graves by Flanders Farms
> Where the dead will rise to my call to arms,
> And march to the Menin Gate."
>
> Two more stanzas follow, concluding:
>
> No more will the night be cold for them,
> For the last tattoo has rolled for them
> And their souls will sing as of old for them,
> As they march to the Menin Gate."
>
> Any suggestions, please, much appreciated.
>
> Yours,
> Julie
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