STAR-CROSS’D LOVER
We were- young, we were gay, we were lovers, and the world was’a garden of flowers:» * Now the blossoms are faded and fallen, and a winter unending is ours. We are.parted, and parted for ever—condemned without hope of reprieveFor my love has a pip on her shoulder, and I but a stripe on my sleeve.’ We have met since it happened, but somehow-Paid Lance-Bombardier though I am — - * ' I just can’t make love at attention, while addressing the loved one as “Ma’am ” Oh, Spirit of Wellington, aid me! A soldier has no right to grieve, But . . My love has a pip on her shoulder, and I but a stripe on my sleeve. So play me “The Flowers of the Forest,” let me drain sorrow’s cup to the dregs, ' I have loved, as a care-free civilian I have lost, as laid down in King’s Regs Let me burnish -the breech of my Bofors and forget about seven days’ leave* For my love has a pip on her shoulder, and I but a stripe on my sleeve.
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Flak, Volume 1, Issue 5, 14 May 1943, Page 7
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176STAR-CROSS’D LOVER Flak, Volume 1, Issue 5, 14 May 1943, Page 7
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