The Iron Youth
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The Iron Iron
Youth
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These teachers always carry their
feelings ready in their waistcoat pockets,
and trot them out by the hour
“Won’t you join up Comrades?”
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No one had theVaguest Idea what we were in for.
We had to recognize that our
generation was more to be trusted than theirs
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We are none of us more than twenty years old…
…And we saw that there was nothing of their world left
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We are the Iron Youth.
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The war has
RUINED everythingforus
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We are forlorn like children
And experienced like old men
I believe we are lost
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We are not youth any longer
To play cardsTo swearAnd to FightNot much for twenty years;
And yetToo much for twenty years
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We believe in warOur humor becomes more bitter each month.
Soldier with the big boots
and shutshut heart
And if anyone were to caress him he would hardly understand…
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You are home, You are homeBut a sense of strangeness will not leave me.
I am a soldier
I am little more than a child.
The thought leaps up with a terrible throttling fear;
You are lost
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I am youngI am twenty years old,
Yet I know nothing of life but:DespairDeathFear
And fatuous superficiality
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Out of twenty, seven are dead
four wounded one in a mad house
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Eight
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WE ARE THE IRON YOUTH
Youth?…That was long ago.
We are old folk
We are lost.