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I have glimpsed England-England once again! ■ • . To mo'the gods have granted ere i die Sights which can be England's only: I j Must call tliem back once more tho thought be pain. Tho Kentish orchards, white with halfgrown sheep, The weighted hop-poles and the stately w™ , ii ' o A-curtseying to children whiter than the morn— . . England's children, conung down to Teap. So lovely England live, what is my life? Still will she fire men's souls and watch them go To .death for her with laughing lips and glad. . . Ahd thus do I return to join the strifeMore mighty impulses I feel-aud lo! More strong .my arm—e'en tho my heart more sad. . , —G 11. L. J., in the "Westminster Gazette."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2718, 13 March 1916, Page 3
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121SHORT LEAVE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2718, 13 March 1916, Page 3
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