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For Halloween, we present a recital of the poem "Corporal Stare" by Robert Graves.

From his 1918 book "Fairies and Fusiliers", it is an account of a real encounter Graves claimed he had had. Halfway through a meal with some comrades, they saw the figure of a Private Challoner, who saluted and then marched away. Challoner had been killed earlier in the year, and Graves had last seen him in Britain before leaving for the front. The last words Challoner had spoken to Graves had been "I'll meet you again in France, sir".

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