AFTER COURT MARTIAL

My mind is not my mind, therefore

I take no heed of what men say,

I lived ten thousand years before

God cursed the town of Nineveh.

The Present is a dream I see

Of horror and loud sufferings,

At dawn a bird will waken me

Unto my place among the kings.

And though men called me a vile name,

And all my dream companions gone,

'Tis I the soldier bears the shame.

Not I the king of Babylon.

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