Quietly they set their burden down: he tried br To grin; moaned; moved his head from side to side. br br He gripped the stretcher; stiffened; glared; and screamed, br 'O put my leg down, doctor, do!' (He'd got br A bullet in his ankle; and he'd been shot br Horribly through the guts.) The surgeon seemed br So kind and gentle, saying, above that crying, br 'You br must br keep still, my lad.' But he was dying.