Monument to an Unknown Soldier

[abu nuwas]

As I read this, I seemed to be trying to to put it to music. Those little things I queried are so personal to me, that I shall not copy them out. I am, at all times, susceptible to poems about the war-dead, and war.

Although it may have been the whole point of the poem for you, I thought the last stanza best left out.

Here is the sort of music it put me in mind of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3wy-L8Ok