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He was young, fifteen I’m told,
When he left his father's farm.
His youthful mind was filled
With dreams of conquest.
His heart was set; his ears were closed
To his mother's tearful pleas.
He’d not return, he vowed,
Till glory crowned him.

Thunder rolled across the earth
From clouds of fear and hate.
The winds of war
Were blowing hot and heavy.
The wild youth heard the bugle call
And drumbeat in his soul;
His time to shine was now, 
And he was ready.
                             
No one cared to question him
When he lied about his age;
His country was in need
Of strong, young bodies
To throw against the enemy,
Whose challenge must be met.
The “righteous cause”
Was hanging in the balance.

Carefully the boy was drilled 
In the deadly art of war.
His hands were quick 
To learn the skills of combat.
It wasn't long till he was cast
Upon the battlefield,
Where fire, smoke, and blood
Obscures all reason.

Time crawled on through hell of war,
And the boy became a man.
But his dreams of glory
Woke to sorrow's dawning.
The hand of death was everywhere,
And it played no favorites.
All flesh was subject
To that shrouded warrior.
                             
On a day when battle smoke,
Like sackcloth, cloaked the sun,
Opposing armies clashed 
In lethal concert.
Hot lead gave way to cold, hard steel,
In fighting hand to hand.
Dust swallowed up the blood
On glory highway.
                              
When at last the day was done
And the grisly toll was paid,
The field lay strewn
With sleeping sons of Adam.
No longer was there enmity
Upon that solemn mead;
The chilly hand of death
Erases life’s hot passions.

Now, glory is a field of grain
That few may hope to harvest.
And laurels are reserved
For heads of generals.
The young man sought
The prize in vain;
He bravely gave his all,
But history forgot his humble story.
                             
Now, far from home and family,
Beneath a gently sloping green,
The young man lies
Rewarded for his valor:
A hundred cubic feet of soil
And a lowly granite stone
To celebrate the end 
Of glory highway.
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