The Guards recently received as a recruit a young man of education and culture who had failed to make good in other vocations. On his first day on the parade ground he was utterly exhausted by several hours of marching up and down. “ Stand at ease!'” ordered the officer at last. “ Flow wonderful is death!” muttered the recruit. The officer turned like a flash. “Who said that?” he demanded. The culprit smiled wanly as he replied: “Shelley, I believe, sir.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 13
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