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[[Flower of youth, poems in war time/Joining the Colours]]
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| title = Joining the Colours
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| author = Katharine Tynan Hinkson
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| year = 1914
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| notes = Published in 1914.
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<poem>
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There they go marching all in step so gay!
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Smooth-cheeked and golden, food for shells and guns.
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Blithely they go as to a wedding day,
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The mothers' sons.
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The drab street lights stares to see them row on row
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On the high tram-tops, singing like the lark.
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Too careless-gay for courage, singing they go
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Into the dark.
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With tin whistles, mouth-organs, any noise,
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They pipe the way to glory and the grave;
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Foolish and young, the gay and golden boys
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Love cannot save.
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High heart! High courage! The poor girls they kissed
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Run with them: they shall kiss no more, alas!
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Out of the mist they stepped - into the mist
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Singing they pass.
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</poem>
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[[Category:Poems]]