Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KILLED IN ACTION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: Happy the man whose home is still
Last Line: And never left it once before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)


HAPPY the man whose home is still
In Nature's green and peaceful ways;
To wake and hear the birds so loud,
That scream for joy to see the sun
Is shouldering past a sullen cloud.

And we have known those days, when we
Would wait to hear the cuckoo first;
When you and I, with thoughtful mind,
Would help a bird to hide her nest,
For fear of other hands less kind.

But thou, my friend, art lying dead:
War, with its hell-born childishness,
Has claimed thy life, with many more:
The man that loved this England well,
And never left it once before.





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