From: Gold Braid

Same old trenches, same old view,

Same old rats as blooming tame,

Same old dug-outs, nothing new,

Same old smell, the very same,

Same old bodies out in front,

Same old ‘strafe’ from two till four,

Same old scratching, same old ‘unt,

Same old bloody war.

Alan Alexander Milne

A.A. Milne, (born January 18, 1882, London, England—died January 31, 1956, Hartfield, Sussex), English humorist, the originator of the immensely popular stories of Christopher Robin and his toy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. After attending the University of Cambridge's Trinity College and writing for the literary magazines Granta and Punch, A.A. Milne began a successful career as a novelist, poet and playwright in the 1920s. His best-known works are his two collections of children's poetry, When We Were Young and Now We Are Six, and his two books of stories about the lovable bear Winnie-the-Pooh and his animal friends.

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