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BELGIUM by EDITH WHARTON

First Line: NOT WITH HER RUINED SILVER SPIRES
Last Line: THE HOME OF ALL THAT MAKES THEM GREAT.
Subject(s): WORLD WAR I - BELGIUM;
@3La Belgique ne regrette rien@1

NOT with her ruined silver spires,
Not with her cities shamed and rent,
Perish the imperishable fires
That shape the homestead from the tent.

Wherever men are staunch and free,
There shall she keep her fearless state,
And homeless, to great nations be
The home of all that makes them great.



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