POEM

=POEM FROM EULALIA BY BRIAN JACQUES = "Let me wander here forever, through the glades where once I played,Long ago in carefree seasons, mid the noontide sun and shade.I will see again before me, all those smiling friends I knew,gone alas to memory's keeping, faithful comrades good and true.Oh, those days of youth and splendour, when we dreamed of glorious war,vows were made to keep forever, and return back here once more.Then the clouds began to gather, winter came, we marched away,singing songs of love and valour, off we went into the fray.Comes a warrior returning, to old autumn's gold-clad trees,where the leaves do fall like teardrops, on the gently sighing breeze.Casting sword and shield aside now, I stand weary and forlorn,in the silence of the woodlands, 1 will rest until the dawn.Let me sleep and dream forever, of the goldendays of yore,and those friends who marched off with me, who'll return alas no more."

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(every time i saved it the poem changed from poem style to paragraph form)