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Remember the procession of the old-young men / From dole queue to corner and back again, / From the pinched, packed streets to the peak of slag / In the bite of the winters with shovel and bag,
With a drooping fag and a turned-up collar, / Stamping for the cold at the ill lit corner / Dragging through the squalor with their hearts like lead / Staring at the hunger and the shut pit-head / Nothing in their pockets, nothing home to eat.
Lagging from the slag heap to the pinched, packed street.
Remember the procession of the old-young men.
It shall never happen again.