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64461: The Enlisted Man

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<p dir="ltr">From STEPS<br> <br> Yelled Corporal Punishment at Private Reasons:<br> 'Rebels like you have no right to enlist---<br> Or to exist!'<br> Major Considerations leered approval,<br> Clenching his fist,<br> And gave his fierce moustache a fiercer twist.<br> So no appeal, even to General Conscience,<br> Kept Private Reasons' name off the defaulter-list.</p>

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3416.txt

Creator

Graves, Robert (1895-1985)

Date

(1995, 1997, 1999)

Date Created

01/01/1997

Temporal Date

31/12/1999

Type

Poem

Rights

The Robert Graves Copyright Trust / Published in Graves, R. (1999) Complete Poems: Volumes 1 - 3. Eds. B. Graves and D. Ward. London: Penguin Books.

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ProQuest

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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    The Robert Graves Collection

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    First World War Poetry Digital ArchiveWorld War OnePoems

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    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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