Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON



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First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold
Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad."
Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies


I met an old man at Stow-on-the-Wold,
Who shook and shivered as though with cold.

And he said to me: "Six sons I had,
And each was a tall and a lively lad.

"But all of them went to France with the guns,
They went together, my six tall sons.

"Six sons I had, six sons I had—
And each was a tall and a lively lad."





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