A Soldier's Ballad by Rudyard Kipling

I have eaten your bread and saltI have drunk your water and wineThe deaths ye died I have watched besideAnd the lives that ya led were mine Was there aught that I did not shareIn vigil or toil ease...One joy or woe that I did not knowDear hearts across the seas? I have written tale of our lifeFor a sheltered people's mirthIn jesting guise... but ye are wiseAnd ye know what the jest is worth.