哈代詩選"The Man He Killed"

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書名	哈代詩選
作者	Thomas Hardy, 李盈
出版者	遠東圖書公司發行, 1967
頁數	234 頁

"The Man He Killed" 這首的註解，在第184頁。

"The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy

Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.

I shot him dead because--
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although

He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like--just as I--
Was out of work--had sold his traps--
No other reason why.

Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half a crown.