The Guards Came Through, and Other Poems

THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH AND OTHER POEMS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY
BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
AUTHOR OF “SONGS OF ACTION,” “SONGS OF THE ROAD”
LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1919
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I must apologize for the size of this booklet, which can only be justified on the grounds that there is some demand for the contents as recitations. I hope presently to combine whatever is worth preserving in my three volumes of verse, so as to make a single collection.
Arthur Conan Doyle.
Men of the Twenty-first,
Up by the Chalk Pit Wood,
Weak from our wounds and our thirst,