Bench on Linden Lane
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What are you dreaming, Soldier,
What is it you see?
A tall grey Gothic tower,
And a linden tree.
You speak so sadly, Soldier,
Sad and wistfully鈥�
I cannot hear the tower bell
In the swirling sea.
What meaning has it, Soldier,
A tower bell, and tree?
Nothing, nothing鈥攐nly once
It meant my life to me.
Thomas Heath