Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE COMING OF PEACE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: It was the night when we expected news from france
Last Line: I almost heard a cuckoo in trafalgar square!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): France; War


IT was the night when we expected news from France,
To say the war was over, and the fighting done;
The tidings that would make my heart rejoice at last,
For foe as well as friend, and make the peoples one.

And as I moved amidst that silent multitude,
Feeling the presence of a wild excitement there,
The world appeared to me so strange and wonderful --
I almost heard a cuckoo in Trafalgar Square!





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