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HIC JACET QUI IN HOC SAECULO FIDELITER MILITAVIT by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT

Poet Analysis

First Line: HE THAT HAS LEFT HEREUNDER
Last Line: HIS SWORD UNTO HIS SON.
Subject(s): WORLD WAR I - CASUALTIES;

HE that has left hereunder
The signs of his release
Feared not the battle's thunder
Nor hoped that wars should cease;
No hatred set asunder
His warfare from his peace.

Nor feared he in his sleeping
To dream his work undone,
To hear the heathen sweeping
Over the lands he won;
For he has left in keeping
His sword unto his son.



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