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I woke before the dawn today,
The stars were bright and clear.
The lonely sigh of a nightingale
Was all that I could hear.
I looked out across the fields
And into the darkened vale.
By my side lay a splintered shield,
Still sung the nightingale.
I heard her weeping in my dreams,
She knew I had,
And from her copse of shadowed trees
Sang low and sad.
A soldier's life is a simple thing,
Of hardship, and some pain,
We live our lives from day to day,
From battle to the grave.
I'm not allowed much time to think,
I've had no fear of death, until the boy
That I killed yesterday
Said with his dying breath,
"See that my lady, she is well.
We have a son.
I pray he never knows this hell
When he is grown."
And so I left him there to die
Beneath his father’s shield,
And stared into the bleeding sky
That soaked the burning field.
And then I wondered why I came,
How long this war has raged,
And will my own sons fight in vain,
When they have come of age?
I know no other life but this,
And never shall,
And it's too late for me to lay
My weapons down.
I woke before the dawn from dreams
That haunted me lastnight,
A whispered death, a woman's screams,
A babe in swaddling white.
I looked out across the fields,
And into the darkened vale;
Nothing here but my splintered shield
And a lonely nightingale...
