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Then came the World War Two
with fighting in the desert too
the peace and silence rudely shattered
the earth with shells and bombs was battered

Land mines strewn across the land
laid beneath the desert sand
armies with each other vying
soldiers in their thousands dying

Burnt out trucks and tanks around
their dead lay buried in the ground
that is, those who could be found
with rifle or cross to mark the mound

Noise and movement then held sway
never ending, night and day
bombers flying in the night
dropping flares for added light

Scream and thud of bomb and shell
machine guns rattling on as well
poor camels could not read the signs
鈥淎chtung Minen!鈥� beware the mines

No more the stillness and the peace
until the war and turmoil cease
t鈥檞ill never be the same again
whilst relics of the War remain.

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