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(A Christmas Card for 1941) By Ada Jackson, in the “Christian Science Monitor.” I have seen England green with spring, And white with orchards blossoming; England blithe and golden-gay With cowslips on an April day; England beauty-garlanded And crowned with roses white and red; England rich and great with sheaves And yellow fruit in tawny leaves; England folded, field and bush, In the hoar-frost’s dazzling plush. I have seen England dark with grief And red with wounds beyond belief; England grimed with battle-sweat, Fiard-pressed and grim and sore beset; England blackened to the bone, Ringed round with fire, betrayed, alone— But standing with her courage whole Before the frontiers of the soul, Enduring all, that men may be Unbound and unafraid and free —• Two Englands in my day have been— England burning, England green; But God shall show a third to me— England bright with victory!
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1942, Page 4
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149LINES FROM ENGLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1942, Page 4
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