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When first I doffed my olive drab, / I thought, delightedly though mutely, / "Henceforth I shall have pleasure ab- / Solutely."
Dull with the drudgery of war, / Sick of the very name of fighting, / I yearned, I thought, for something more / Exciting.
The rainbow be my guide, quoth I; / My suit shall be a brave and proud one / Gay-hued my socks; and oh, my tie / A loud one!
For me the theatre and the dance; / Primrose the path I would be wending; / For me the roses of romance / Unending.
Those were my inner thoughts that day / (And those of many another million) / When once again I should be a / Civilian.
I would not miss the old o. d.; / (Monotony I didn't much like) / I would not miss the reveille, / And such like.
I don't. And do I now enjoy / My walks along the primrose way so?
Is civil life the life? Oh, boy, / I'll say so.