BEFORE ACTION
By all the glories of tho And the cool evening's benison. By that last sunset touch that lay Upon the hills when day was done, By beauty lavishly outpoured And blessings carelessly received, By all the days that I have lived, Make me a soldier, Lord, By all of all man's hopes and fears, And all tho wonders'poets sing, Tho laughter of unclouded years, And every sa;l and lovely tliinjf. By tho romantio ages etored With high endeavour that was his, By all his mad catastrophes, Hake mo a man, 0 Lord. I, that on my familiar hill Saw with uncomprehending eyes A hundred of Thy sunsets spill Their fresh and 6anguine sacrifice, Ere the sun swings his noonday eword Must say good-byo to all of .this: By all delights that I shall miss, Help mo to die, 0 Lord. , —Wm. Noel Hodgson.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3124, 30 June 1917, Page 11
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145BEFORE ACTION Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3124, 30 June 1917, Page 11
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