CHILDREN OF NO MAN’S LAND
CHILDREN
OF NO MAN’S LAND
BY
G. B. STERN
AUTHOR OF
‘PANTOMIME,’ ‘SEE-SAW,’ ‘TWOS AND THREES,’
‘GRAND CHAIN,’ ‘A MARRYING MAN’
LONDON: DUCKWORTH & CO
3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
All Rights Reserved
First published 1919
Printed in Great Britain
by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
TO
GEOFFREY HOLDSWORTH
“What is love of one’s land?...
I don’t know very well.
It is something that sleeps for a year, for a day,
For a month, something that keeps
Very hidden and quiet and still,
And then takes
The quiet heart like a wave,
The quiet brain like a spell,
The quiet will
Like a tornado, and that shakes
The whole being and soul ...
Aye, the whole of the soul.”
Ford Madox Hueffer