Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LORD, I OWE THEE A DEATH' (IN TIME OF WAR), by ALICE MEYNELL


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First Line: Man pays that debt with new munificence
Last Line: But greatly and in gold
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
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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