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THE THING THAT MAKES ME PATRIOT MOST by HENRY PATMORE

Last Line: No wish can haunt, no pain reprove
Subject(s): PATRIOTISM; ENGLAND;

The thing that makes me patriot most.
Too country-proud to care to boast.
Is not th''' imperial thought whose pain
Still honours things by Gladstone slain;
And though the English women are
The pride of peace which wins in war.
And that one who is all my pride
In England seems personified; ''"
The land itself from which she sprung.
These very fields I walk among.
These hills whose sides and gentle tops
Are lit with woods and hung with hops.
Those yellow tracts, and near them seen
So many tints from brown to green, ''"
This is my country, this the love
No wish can haunt, no pain reprove.




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