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LORD, I OWE THEE A DEATH' (IN TIME OF WAR) by ALICE MEYNELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: MAN PAYS THAT DEBT WITH NEW MUNIFICENCE
Last Line: But greatly and in gold
Subject(s): WAR;
Man pays that debt with new munificence,
Not piecemeal now, not slowly, by the old:
Not grudgingly, by the effaced thin pence,
But greatly and in gold



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