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Page 15
... Earth to Heaven , The nights ablaze , with their white passage riven , As , trailing clouds of glory , swift they come . H. W. Bliss . TO BELGIUM GREAT - HEARTED Belgium ! England weeps for 15 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
... Earth to Heaven , The nights ablaze , with their white passage riven , As , trailing clouds of glory , swift they come . H. W. Bliss . TO BELGIUM GREAT - HEARTED Belgium ! England weeps for 15 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
Page 23
... earth to defend : She has marked me the way I may serve her best : She judges the issue : she knows the end : - Mine to work - be the meaning unguessed . So little a work - but I thank God most For this - that the issue itself is large ...
... earth to defend : She has marked me the way I may serve her best : She judges the issue : she knows the end : - Mine to work - be the meaning unguessed . So little a work - but I thank God most For this - that the issue itself is large ...
Page 67
... earth responding ) Bared your face in the starlight , curious the scene , cool blew the moderate night - wind , Long there and then in vigil I stood , dimly around me the battlefield spreading , Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there in ...
... earth responding ) Bared your face in the starlight , curious the scene , cool blew the moderate night - wind , Long there and then in vigil I stood , dimly around me the battlefield spreading , Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there in ...
Page 68
... earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands , Passing sweet hours , immortal and mystic hours with you , dearest comrade -- not a tear , not a word , Vigil of silence , love and death , vigil for you , my son ...
... earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands , Passing sweet hours , immortal and mystic hours with you , dearest comrade -- not a tear , not a word , Vigil of silence , love and death , vigil for you , my son ...
Page 69
... earth responding ) Vigil for comrade swiftly slain , vigil I never forget , how as day brighten'd , I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket . And buried him where he fell . Walt Whitman . BY THE BIVOUAC'S ...
... earth responding ) Vigil for comrade swiftly slain , vigil I never forget , how as day brighten'd , I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket . And buried him where he fell . Walt Whitman . BY THE BIVOUAC'S ...
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Arethusa arm'd arms army array banner battle beat blast blood boys breath Bret Harte bugles blown Cannon charge cheer Christ or Nietzsche Clusium crest cried death deep dread drum England's dead eyes F. W. Bourdillon fathers fell field fierce fight fire flag fought gallant glory hand Hark hath hear heard Hearts of oak heaven helmet helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre Herminius Highland laddie hills homes of England Horatius horse John Burns King land Lars Porsena light look Lord loud Marmion morn mountain Navarre ne'er never night noble o'er pibroch pride proud quoth rage roar rode rolling rose round rush Sextus shield shout slain smile soldier song sound spake spears stand stood sweet sword tears thee Thomas Campbell thou thousand thunder twas victory vigil voice W. E. Henley Walt Whitman waves wild winds do blow wounded