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SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 2, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far fall the day when england's realm shall see
Last Line: Ere such a mighty work man rears on high!
Subject(s): World War I; First World War


Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of dominion! Her increase
Abolishes the man-dividing seas,
And frames the brotherhood on earth to be!
She, in free peoples planting sovereignty,
Orbs half the civil world in British peace;
And though time dispossess her, and she cease,
Rome-like she greatens in man's memory.
Oh, many a crown shall sink in war's turmoil,
And many a new republic light the sky,
Fleets sweep the ocean, nations till the soil,
Genius be born and generations die,
Orient and Occident together toil,
Ere such a mighty work man rears on high!





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