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Lead and iron rain

Down from sulphuric skies

Suffering….decay

Humanity bleed dry

We the dead

Drew breath short days ago

Regret and silence

Our companions below

August, noble deaths

Were vainglorious lies

Abject death the curse

For we who scorched the sky

Flesh for flesh

Bone for bone

Shattered shells

Of glorious sons that returned home

Blood and earth

A bitter union borne

Suffer the young

Their hope and promise stillborn