BEFORE THE WAR AND IN IT.
hi days of peace,—far off they gleam— We crowned the domed fruit with cream, Our eggs with bacon over wedded, On bread with butter jam was threaded Before the War. Our board an ever-kindly cheer, Our cellar gave of ample beer, We drank a glass of port together To hearten us in wintry weather Before the War. Our ventilators wooed the breeze, Ensealed by greedy refugees, The air of home unvitiated, Home privacy nnimmoulated, Before the War. War seemed to men an idle talc; The peace of ages could not fail Their Island home of tranquil havens; The foemeti held our breed for cravens Before the War. Our cankered ease became a vice, We dreamed not life were sacrifice, Nor thought and felt am! toiled for others, , Xor deemed of Britons as of brothers Before the War. Now, when the scourge of Heaven la-shcs, And kingdoms are but blood and ashes, _ We wake —to find in noble strife, In yielding self ami love and life. Faith amid War. X.1,.11.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 23, 27 May 1915, Page 3
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175BEFORE THE WAR AND IN IT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 23, 27 May 1915, Page 3
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