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The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy

originally published 1902

published in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, Volume I, Page 263
by London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, St. Martin’s Street, 1923



    " Had he and I but met
    By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
    Right many a nipperkin !

    " But ranged as infantry,
    And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
    And killed him in his place.

    " I shot him dead because—
    Because he was my foe,
Just so : my foe of course he was ;
    That's clear enough ; although

    " He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
    Off-hand like—just as I—
Was out of work—had sold his traps—
    No other reason why.

    " Yes ; quaint and curious war is !
    You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
    Or help to half-a-crown."