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FORGOTTEN VERSE



War poet, Rudyard Kipling's poem on the treatment of the common soldier in the Great War. Tommy is a reference to the name given to young illiterate soldiers who were unable to write theirs on the sign-up forms.

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Tommy
by Rudyard Kipling

I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez,


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