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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENGLAND AND AMERICA, by FLORENCE TABER HOLT
First Line: Mother and child! Though the dividing sea
Last Line: Whose lives were given for this larger life.
Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War
First Line: Mother and child! Though the dividing sea
Last Line: Whose lives were given for this larger life.
Subject(s): Mothers; World War I; First World War
MOTHER and child! Though the dividing sea
Shall roll its tide between us, we are one,
Knit by immortal memories, and none
But feels the throb of ancient fealty.
A century has passed since at thy knee
We learnt the speech of freemen, caught the fire
That would not brook thy menaces, when sire
And grandsire hurled injustice back to thee.
But the full years have wrought equality:
The past outworn, shall not the future bring
A deeper union, from whose life shall spring
Mankind's best hope? In the dark night of strife
Men perished for their dream of Liberty
Whose lives were given for this larger life.
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