Their Name Liveth For Evermore
Quote of the moment:
In Memoriam
Private D Sutherland - Killed in Action in the German
trench May 16th, and the others who died.
So you were David's father,
and he was your only son,
And the new-cut peats are rotting
And the work is left undone
Because of an old man weeping,
Just an old man in pain,
For David, his son David,
That will not come again.
Oh, the letters that he wrote you,
And I can see them still,
Not a word of the fighting
But just the sheep on the hill
And how you should get the crops in
Ere the year gets stormier,
And the Boches have got his body,
And I was his officer.
You were only Davids father,
But I had 50 sons
When we went up in the evening
Under the arch of the guns,
And we came back at twilight -
O God! I heard them call,
To me for help and pity
That could not help at all.
Oh, never will I forget you,
My men that trusted me,
More my sons than your father's,
For they could only see
The helpless little babies
And the young men in their pride.
They could not see you dying,
And hold you while you died.
Happy and young and gallant,
They saw their first-born go,
But not the strong limbs broken
And the beautiful men brought low,
The piteous writhing bodies,
They screamed 'Don't leave me, sir,'
For they were only your fathers
But I was your officer.
If I manage to wake up in the morning, which is by no means guaranteed, I'll be going to the first and foremost of my three religious services of the year.
Went to the gym today to try and make up for this week. Ate almost all of the junk food that my rents bought me when they visited, didn't go to the gym because of pulled muscle in my leg. My bad. The suggested gym program has changed from 3 sets of 10 minutes with 10 minute breaks to a solid half hour. Apparently it'll "build our mental toughness". Not convinced. Apparently I should have broken a pain barrier somewhere in the middle 10 minutes, but it never really kicked in. 7678 metres at the end, which meant I passed 5k in 19:53, in the midst of the times listed on the gym "leaderboard" for just the 5k. Mwahaha. I suspect I may be more of a 5k than a 2k race person.
In Memoriam
Private D Sutherland - Killed in Action in the German
trench May 16th, and the others who died.
So you were David's father,
and he was your only son,
And the new-cut peats are rotting
And the work is left undone
Because of an old man weeping,
Just an old man in pain,
For David, his son David,
That will not come again.
Oh, the letters that he wrote you,
And I can see them still,
Not a word of the fighting
But just the sheep on the hill
And how you should get the crops in
Ere the year gets stormier,
And the Boches have got his body,
And I was his officer.
You were only Davids father,
But I had 50 sons
When we went up in the evening
Under the arch of the guns,
And we came back at twilight -
O God! I heard them call,
To me for help and pity
That could not help at all.
Oh, never will I forget you,
My men that trusted me,
More my sons than your father's,
For they could only see
The helpless little babies
And the young men in their pride.
They could not see you dying,
And hold you while you died.
Happy and young and gallant,
They saw their first-born go,
But not the strong limbs broken
And the beautiful men brought low,
The piteous writhing bodies,
They screamed 'Don't leave me, sir,'
For they were only your fathers
But I was your officer.
If I manage to wake up in the morning, which is by no means guaranteed, I'll be going to the first and foremost of my three religious services of the year.
Went to the gym today to try and make up for this week. Ate almost all of the junk food that my rents bought me when they visited, didn't go to the gym because of pulled muscle in my leg. My bad. The suggested gym program has changed from 3 sets of 10 minutes with 10 minute breaks to a solid half hour. Apparently it'll "build our mental toughness". Not convinced. Apparently I should have broken a pain barrier somewhere in the middle 10 minutes, but it never really kicked in. 7678 metres at the end, which meant I passed 5k in 19:53, in the midst of the times listed on the gym "leaderboard" for just the 5k. Mwahaha. I suspect I may be more of a 5k than a 2k race person.
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