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DEDICATED

TO THE MEMORY OF

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

A TRUE POET AND BELOVED

OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM

What have I done for you,
England, my England?

What is there I would not do,

England, my own?

With your glorious eyes austere,

As the Lord were walking near
Whispering terrible things and dear,
As the song on your bugles blown,
England

Round the world on your bugles blown!

I am indebted to Mr. H. W. Bliss for permission to include “Any friend to any friend" and "To Belgium"; to Mr. Bernard Fagan for "The Hour"; to Mr. Edmund Holmes for "Christ or Neitzsche" and "Standing Still": to Miss Vivanti Chartes for "The Heart of Italy"; to Mr. Walter Grogan for the "Home Flag"; to Miss Iris Tree for "In Time of War"; to Mrs. W. E. Henley for "England, my England"; and to Mr. F. W. Bourdillon for False Gods."

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INDEX OF FIRST LINES

A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands
Arm'd year-year of the struggle

As I lay with my head in my lap, camerado

At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay

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At length the freshening western blast

Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones

Beat! beat! drums !-blow! bugles! blow!

By the bivouac's fitful flame

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Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer
Down the picket guarded lane.

England, with all thy faults I love thee still

Ev'n as I thought of you, your soul had sped.

Fair stood the wind for France.

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Gods of Berserker and Viking, Thor and Odin, rise again
Great-hearted Belgium! England weeps for you

Half a league, half a league

Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands

Have you heard the story that gossips tell?

Here's a health unto His Majesty

How solemn as one by one

Humanity, delighting to behold

I read last night of the grand review

I see before me now a travelling army halting
Italy, fair Italy, what may thy pleasure be?

It was a summer evening

"I was with Grant "-the stranger said

Lars Porsena of Clusium,

Long the proud Spaniards had vaunted to conquer us

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