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THE COMING OF PEACE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT WAS THE NIGHT WHEN WE EXPECTED NEWS FROM FRANCE
Last Line: I ALMOST HEARD A CUCKOO IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE!
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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