Owen's Lament

Richards/Augie March (as far as I know)

 
Level your fretting
I won't be forgetting
The flush of your face
When I lifted you level to me and
A wattle tree framed your body
In whispers
Welling with the touch of the new spring

You said, kill me a dynasty
Or our love won't mean a thing
A bullet for a diamond ring.
A favour promised,
A promise delivered and more
To you

It's only a war, I'll be
Back to your shore
Before you know I'm gone
Then I'll cover your body

And if you have to go,
Please, go lightly
Keep it to a foxtrot, whether he's a fox or not
Keep it cold, keep all your heat for me
I'll be needing it for when I'm cold, you see

Let your children remind you of me
Whether by another
Or by the ghost of me in you

There goes my baby
I would think of you and a palm tree
Would cover your body and you

In love and war we are bound by a law
It goes to you, and then to yours
To recover my body
Recover my body

She bound me up and hugged me
O how the mother loves thee
She covered my body
In a ragged flag and bloody -
O not on your life
 

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