Poem with "every bloody one of us"???

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Arrghh...well if no one here knows...then I must have dreamed it...or misremembered or something...

I'll have to write it myself, maybe, lol, though never wrote a poem in my life...

But this one is bugging me.

Sounds vaguely Phillip Larkin-ish?

thanks
I did not know him, maybe saw his name somewhere but never read him...I'm pretty uneducated about real poetry..know a lot of song lyrics though.

Just thought I'd post the first one of his poems that caught my fancy, thanks muchly for the intro to him:

The Little Lives Of Earth And Form

The little lives of earth and form,
Of finding food, and keeping warm,
Are not like ours, and yet
A kinship lingers nonetheless:
We hanker for the homeliness
Of den, and hole, and set.

And this identity we feel
- Perhaps not right, perhaps not real -
Will link us constantly;
I see the rock, the clay, the chalk,
The flattened grass, the swaying stalk,
And it is you I see.

Yes I can identify with all equivocators, lol...which describes poets generally...

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I found it I found it!!!! Yay....and it was in a book of quotations I've had for years, just can't remember where I see things. The poem is about soldiers but I think we all fight a good fight...be kind everyone is fighting a hard battle, Plato I think.

J. MASON KNOX
American humorist
(fl. 1900)



It is not the guns or armament
Or the money they can pay,
It's the close co-operation
That makes them win the day.
It is not the individual
Or the army as a whole,
But the everlastin' teamwork
Of every bloomin' soul.

(Actually I'm not sure this is the only place I've seen this idea expressed, I still think I saw another poem somewhere about "every bloomin' one of us.")

I googled and got this. The line is in the book somewhere and perhaps you read it there?