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I watched the mounted soldier
In the Anzac Day parade,
Silence fell around me - the crowd began to fade,
Hoofbeats thudded near me
I heard a muffled drum
And thousand upon thousand I saw the horsemen
come.
Slouching easy in the saddle
They passed me one by one
Our wide brown land behind them - father, brother,
son,
Fearless eyes set forward
To a far and foreign land
Stark white crosses rising on bloodstained desert
sand.
Humbled by their valour
The sacrifice they made,
The dreadful, desperate courage of the brave Light-
horse Brigade,
I wept for grieving mothers
I wept for fallen men,
I wept for all the horses that did not come home
again.
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