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AD ASTRA: 119 by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE

First Line: YET THOSE BROAD ACRES THAT OUR FATHERS LOVED
Last Line: STILL BREATHING OF A FEUDAL PEACE PROFOUND,
Subject(s): PEACE;

Yet those broad acres that our fathers loved,
The stately chase with all its woodland sheen,
The slender-footed deer, that whilom roved
'Mid forest aisles and vales of spangled green,
The winding avenues, the distant scene,
And last the ancestral Manor, ivy-crown'd,
Still breathing of a feudal peace profound,



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