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IN MEMORIAM (EASTER 1915) by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE FLOWERS LEFT THICK AT NIGHTFALL IN THE WOOD
Last Line: HAVE GATHERED THEM AND WILL DO NEVER AGAIN.
Subject(s): EASTER; HOLIDAYS; SOLDIERS; WAR; WORLD WAR I; THE RESURRECTION; FIRST WORLD WAR;
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.



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