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Over the Top by Sybil Bristowe
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Ten more minutes! – Say yer prayers, Read yer Bibles, pass the rum!
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Ten more minutes. Strike me dumb, 'Ow they
Ten more minutes! Strike me dumb, 'Ow they on unawares, Those blooming minutes. Nine. It's queer, I'm sorter stunned. Creeps
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It ain't with fear!
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Eight. It's like as if a frog Waddled round in your inside,
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Cold as ice-blocks, straddle wide,Tired o' waiting.
Where's the grog?
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Seven. I'll play yer pitch and toss – Six. – I wins, and tails yer loss.
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'Nother minute sprinted by 'Fore I knowed it; only Four (Break 'em into seconds) more 'Twixt us and Eternity.
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Every word I've ever said Seems a-shouting in my head.
Love… Hate… Fear … Mother… Wife …Joy… Fight NOW!
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Three. Larst night a little star Fairly shook up in the sky, Didn't like the lullaby Rattled by the dogs of War.
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Funny thing – that star all white Saw old Blighty, too, larst night …
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Two. I ain't ashamed o' prayers, They're only wishes sent ter God Bits o' plants from bloody sod Trailing up His golden stairs.
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Ninety seconds – Well, who cares! One –
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No fife, no blare, no drum –
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Over the Top – to Kingdom Come!
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Works Cited “WWI Women’s Poetry & Verse.” Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature [online] January 2003.
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