Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HAPPY ENGLAND, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: Now each man's mind all europe is
Last Line: Had given its all for these!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


Now each man's mind all Europe is:
Boding and fear in dread array
Daze every heart: O grave and wise,
Abide in hope the judgment day.

This war of millions in arms
In myriad replica we wage;
Unmoved, then, Soul, by earth's alarms
The dangers of the dark engage.

Remember happy England: keep
For her bright cause thy latest breath;
Her peace that long hath lulled to sleep,
May now exact the sleep of death.

Her woods and wilds, her loveliness,
With harvest now are richly at rest;
Safe in her isled securities,
Thy children's heaven is her breast.

O what a deep contented night
The sun from out her Eastern seas
Would bring the dust which in her sight
Had given its all for these!





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