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  • For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, The regiment's in 'ollow squarethey're hangin' himto- day; They've taken of his buttons off an'cut his stripes away, An'they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'Danny Deever'.

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