SALVATIONIST
Essential reading for everyone linked to The Salvation Army // www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist 9 November 2013 // No. 1423 // Price 60p // Also available digitally
When I am gone To fight, you said, was right for me, A chance to show my soldier’s brawn, But if I meet a grisly end Will you remember me, my friend, When I am gone? I must believe, you gently said, The darkest hour precedes the dawn But when death comes from high above Will you remember me, my love, When I am gone? I’ll never know my unborn boy Or see him run along our lawn, And when he’s grown, a bold, strong lad, Will he remember me, his dad, When I am gone? And if we fail to banish war, Our brazen lines of battle drawn Where countless more will fight and fall, Will you remember me at all When I am gone?
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