Sunday, May 27, 2012

Flowers of the Forest again


Flowers of the Forest again

More war years
Won’t dry the tears
On the mothers sallow cheek

When soldier boys
Have lost their toys
And return in the brittle box

A folded flag
A political gag
Placed in the mothers hands

On dusty street
Sad mothers weep
For the children dead in arms

Across the sand
Come play the band
Flowers of the Forest again

Young women cry
Old men sigh
As they dip red white and blue

It’s freedoms’ stain
And Britain’s pain
As they go marching on…


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