Luyện nghe bài hát La Colombe

Why all these bugles crying for squads of young men
To kill and to be and waiting by this train?
Why the orders loud and hoarse, why the groaning cough
As it strains to us off into the holocaust?
Why crowds who sing and cry, and shout and us flowers
And trade their right for ours to and to die?

The dove has torn her so no more songs of love
We are not here to sing, here to kill the dove

Why has this come when childhood has to die
When hope shrinks to a sigh and speech into a
Why are they pale and still, young boys overnight
Conscripts forced to fight and dressed in gray to
These rain clouds tight, this train load battle bound
moving burial ground sent thundering toward the night

Why statues towering brave above the defeat
Old word and lies repeat across the new grave?
Why the same birth that victory always brought
These of glory bought by men with mouths of earth?
ash without a spark where cities glittered bright
For guns probe every and crush it in the dark

And why your face undone with jagged of tears
That gave in those years all peace I ever won?
Your body in the gloom, the fading back
Your shadow on the track, a on a tomb
And why days ahead when I must let you cry
And live prepared to die as if our love were