WW1 Soldier's Song (Stand to Your Glasses)

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WW1 Soldier's Song (Stand to Your Glasses)

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Still photographs accompanied by WW1 soldier's song titled "Stand to Your Glasses"

"Stand to Your Glasses"

We meet 'neath the sounding rafters
And the walls around are bare
As they echo to our laughter
'Twould not seem that the dead were there

Who dreads to the dead returning
Who shrinks from that sable shore
Where the high and haughty yearning
Of the souls will be no more?

So stand to your glasses steady
'Tis all we have left to prize
Quaff a cup to the dead already
And one to the next who dies

Cut off from the land that bore us
Betrayed by the land we find
When the brightest have gone before us
And the dullest remain behind

There is not time for repentance
'Tis folly to yield to despair
When a shudder may finish a sentence
Or death put an end to a prayer

Time was when we frowned on others
We thought we were wiser then
But now let us all be brothers
For we never may meet again

[ But a truce to this mournful story
[ For death is a distant friend
[ So here's to a life of glory
[ And a laurel to crown each end

So stand to your glasses steady
'Tis all we have left to prize
Quaff a cup to the dead already )
And one to the next who dies (2x)

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