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“I am Branded by an Impression of Sunlight”

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The Emegrée

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“Theirs Not to Make Reply,
Theirs Not to Reason Why,
Theirs But to Do and Die,”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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“Someone Had Blunder’d”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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“Lick Back Napoleon Battalion”

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Checking Out me History

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“Strange, it is a Huge Nothing that we Fear”

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Storm on the Island

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“Carted Off in the Back of a Lorry”

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Remains

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“Which Had Been the Better Way to Die”

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Kamikaze

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“Paper Smoothed and Stroked and Thinned to be Transparent”

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Tissue

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“Your Playground Voice Catching on the Wind”

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Poppies

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“How the Blood stained into Foreign Dust”

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War Photographer

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“Leaned Against it Like a Wishbone”

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Poppies

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“A Flask of Water, a Samurai Sword”

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Kamikaze

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“Rode the Six Hundred”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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“I Carving Out me Identity”

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Checking Out me History

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“And de Cow Who Jumped Over de Moon”

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Checking Out me History

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“They that had Fought so Well”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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“My Shadow Falls as Evidence of Sunlight”

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The Emegrée

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“Spasms of Paper Red”

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Poppies

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“Flashing Silver as their Bellies Swivelled Towards the Sun”

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Kamikaze

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“The Drink and the Drugs Won’t Flush Him Out”

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Remains

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“Threw up a Yellow Hare that Rolled Like a Flame”

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Bayonet charge

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“His Terrors Touchy Dynamite”

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Bayonet charge

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“And Never Wish to Build Again with Brick”

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Tissue

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“I See Every Round as it Rips Through His Life”

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Remains

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"The World Overflowing Like a Treasure Chest"
Poppies
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"Hopeful Stream"
Checking Out me History
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"Paper Thinned by Age or Touching"
Tissue
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"Dem Tell Me Bout 1066 and All Dat"
Checking Out me History
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"But Nothing Happens"
Exposure
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"Written in the Names and Histories"
Tissue
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"I Wander Through Each Chartered Street, Near Where the Chartered Thames Does Flow"
London
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"Six-feet-under in Desert Sand"
Remains
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"Nothing Beside Remains"
Ozymandias
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"The Horizon's Bound, a Huge Peak, Black and Huge"
The Prelude
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"The Poignant Misery of Dawn Begins to Grow"
Exposure
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"The Wizened Earth Has Never Troubled Us"
Storm on the Island
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"Bullets Smacking the Belly Out of the Air"
Bayonet Charge
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"Proud of His Skill, to Reach a Chosen Point with an Unswerving Line"
The Prelude
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"End of Story Except Not Really"
Remains
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"Lustily I Dipped My Oars into the Silent Lake"
The Prelude
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"Too Soon Made Glad, Too easily Impressed"
My Last Duchess
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"A Tuna, the Dark Prince Muscular, Dangerous"
Kamikaze
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"I gave Commands; Then All Smiles Stopped Together"
My Last Duchess
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"Huge and Mighty Forms"
The Prelude
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"I Have No Passport, there's No Way back at All"
The Emegrée
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"Listening Between His Footfalls for the Reason"
Bayonet Charge
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"Into the Jaws of Death, into the Mouth of Hell"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
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"Noble Six Hundred"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
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"We Watch them Wandering Up and Down the Wind's Nonchalance"
Exposure
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"Low Drooping Flares Confuse Our Memory of the Salient"
Exposure
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"He Earns His Living and they Do Not Care"
War Photographer
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"Ordinary Pain Which Simple Weather Can Dispel"
War Photographer
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"There She Stands as if Alive"
My Last Duchess
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"Probably Armed Possibly Not"
Remains
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"The Lone and Level Sands Stretch Far Away"
Ozymandias
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"With Living Tissue Raised a Structure never Meant to Last"
Tissue
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"As if She Ranked My Gift of a Nine-hundred Year Old Name with Anybody's Gift"
My Last Duchess
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"You Were Away, Intoxicated"
Poppies
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"Notice Neptune Though taming a Sea Horse"
My Last Duchess
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"A Hundred Agonies in Black-and-white"
War Photographer
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"A Yellow Sunrise to the Dying"
Checking Out me History
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"Sellotape Bandaged Around My Hand"
Poppies
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"Less Deadly then the Air that Shudders Black with Snow"
Exposure
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"The Hand that Mocked them and the Heart that Fed"
Ozymandias
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"Half Sunk , a Shattered Visage Lies"
Ozymandias
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"King, Honour, human Dignity, Etcetra Dropped Like Luxuries"
Bayonet Charge
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"Spits Like a Tame Cat Turned Savage"
Storm on the Island
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"You Might Think that the Sea is Company"
Storm on the Island
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"Every Black'ning Church Appals"
London
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"Two vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone"
Ozymandias
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"They Accuse Me of Being Dark in their Free City"
The Emegrée
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"Between the Bath and Pre-lunch Beers"
War Photographer
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"In Every Cry of Every Man, In Every Infant's Cry of Fear, In Every Voice, in Every Ban,"
London
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"Can Raise a Tragic Chorus in a Gale"
Storm on the Island
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"The Worst news I Receive of it Cannot Break My Original View"
The Emegrée
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"Till Gradually we too Learned to be Silent"
Kamikaze
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"From Which His Editor Will Pick Out Five or Six"
War Photographer
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"Turned into Your Skin"
Tissue
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"tosses His Guts back into His Body"
Remains
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"Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair"
Ozymandias
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"And I Choose Never to Stoop"
My Last Duchess
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"With Trembling Oars I Turned and Through the Silent Water Stole My Way"
The Prelude
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"The Frontiers Rise Between us, Close Like Waves"
The Emegrée
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"Is it that We Are Dying"
Exposure
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"Raw-seamed Hot Khaki"
Bayonet Charge
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"Enough Fuel for a One-way Journey into History"
Kamikaze
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"She was an Elfin Pinnace"
The Prelude
88
"Mind-forged Manacles"
London
89
"His Bloody Life in My Bloody Hands"
Remains
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"And the Hapless Soldier's Sigh Runs in Blood Down Palace Walls"
London
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"Exploding Comfortably Down on the Cliffs"
Storm on the Island
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"blights with Plagues the marriage Hearse"
London

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