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The Send-Off describes a group of soldiers being waved off to the war. They leave by train, with their uniforms decorated with flowers they have been given by the women. Although the troops have come from a cheering crowd, by the time they get to the station there are not many people still watching. Those that are there are described as "dull porters" and a "casual tramp". The train moves off, and the narrator wonders whether they will come back in "wild train-loads" together in celebration, but concludes that too few of them will return.
Although it is apparently about going off to war, the poem is really about how many soldiers are killed in war, and the contrast between the excitement of the send-off and the realities of death.
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