My A. E. F: A Hail and Farewell (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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You were passing bitter; never too rough to fail in gentleness - and there were times when no Sunday school in the universe or its senses would have awarded you a diploma. But no more gallant figure ever swung through the ages than you in your bright youth and your drab khaki; you, with your curly head high and your shoulders back under the weight of the world and an eighty-pound pack; you, with the dreams of an Old world and the vision of a new behind those shining eyes of yours - eyes that could be as level as Justice, and as dancing as Folly, and as tender as Pity. How can you be just a memory, you who were more alive than Life itself? You were more friend to me than any friend that I have ever had, dearer than any love, the comrade that we go seeking all our lives. When you saw me standing there by the road down which you were striding, your hand came.

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