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STOW-ON-THE-WOLD by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON

Poet Analysis

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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