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1
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I wander through each

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chartered street (London)

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marks of weakness,

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marks of woe (London)

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The mind-forged

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manacles I hear (London)

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the chimney sweepers cry…

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hapless soldier’s sigh (London)

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5
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plagues the

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marriage hearse (London)

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Every blackning

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Church appalls (London)

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7
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Our brains ache, in the

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merciless iced east winds that

knive us… (Exposure)

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But nothing happens

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(Exposure)

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9
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forgotten dreams, and stare,

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snow-dazed (Exposure)

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10
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we turn back to

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our dying (Exposure)

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11
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sudden successive flights of

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bullets streak the silence (Exposure)

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12
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tucks, darts, pleats

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(Poppies)

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13
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the world overflowing/

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like a treasure chest (Poppies)

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14
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released a song bird

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from its cage (Poppies)

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15
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leaned against it

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like a wishbone (Poppies)

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16
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hoping to hear. Your playground voice

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catching on the

wind (Poppies)

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17
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Spasms of red,

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Disrupting a blockade of yellow (poppies)

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17
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Sellotape

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Bandaged around my hand (poppies)

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18
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One- way journey

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Into history (kamikaze)

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18
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The dark shoals of fishes flashing

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Silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun (kamikaze)

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19
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They treated him

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As though he no longer existed (kamikaze)

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19
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He must have wondered

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Which had been the better way to die (kamikaze)

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20
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He had never returned,

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That this was no longer the Father we loved (kamikaze)

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21
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Two vast and

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trunkless legs of stone (Ozymandias)

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22
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Half sunk,

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a shattered visage lies (Ozymandias)

23
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sneer of

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cold command (Ozymandias)

24
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king of

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kings (Ozymandias)

25
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colossal wreck,

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boundless and bare (Ozymandias)

26
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One summer evening

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(led by her) (The Prelude)

27
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troubled

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pleasure (The Prelude)

28
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a huge peak,

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black and huge (The Prelude)

29
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lustily, I dipped my

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oars into the silent lake (The Prelude)

30
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there hung a darkness,

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call it solitude / or blank desertion (The Prelude)

31
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half-flush that

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dies along her throat (My Last Duchess)

33
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My gift of a

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nine-hundred-years-old name (My Last Duchess)

35
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I gave commands; /

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Then all smiles stopped together (My Last Duchess)

36
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Notice Neptune,

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though, taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity (My Last Duchess)

37
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valley of

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death (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

38
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theirs not to make reply/

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theirs not to reason why/ theirs but

to do and die (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

39
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jaws of Death/

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…mouth of Hell (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

40
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someone had

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blunder’d (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

41
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Noble

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six hundred (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

42
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We are prepared

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(Storm on the Island)

43
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spits like a tame cat/

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turned savage (Storm on the Island)

44
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exploding comfortably

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(Storm on the Island)

45
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But there are no trees,

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no natural shelter (Storm on the Island)

46
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We are bombarded

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by the empty air (Storm on the Island)

47
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bullets smacking the

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belly out of the air- (Bayonet Charge)

48
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he lugged a rifle numb as

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a smashed arm (Bayonet Charge)

49
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patriotic tear

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(Bayonet Charge)

50
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a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/

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And crawled in a
threshing circle (Bayonet Charge)
51
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king, honour,

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human dignity, etcetera (Bayonet Charge)

52
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On another occasion

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(Remains)

53
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probably armed,

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possibly not (Remains)

54
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rips through

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his life (Remains)

54
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tosses his guts

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back into his body (Remains)

54
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his bloody life

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in my bloody hands (Remains)

55
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then he’s carted off

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in the back of a lorry (Remains)

57
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But his

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blood-shadow still remains (Remains)

59
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And the drink and

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the drugs won’t flush him out (Remains)

61
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And he’s dug in

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behind enemy lines (Remains)

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