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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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