CONTENTS

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[TO CERTAIN COMRADES][13]
[THE FIRE KINDLED][15]
[TO THE POET BEFORE BATTLE][17]
[MAISEMORE][18]
[AFTERWARDS][20]
[CAROL][21]
[STRANGE SERVICE][23]
[SERENITY][25]
[THE SIGNALLER’S VISION][26]
[THE MOTHER][27]
[TO ENGLAND—A NOTE][28]
[BACH AND THE SENTRY][29]
[LETTERS][30]
[STRAFE][31]
[ACQUIESCENCE][32]
[THE STRONG THING][33]
[SCOTS][34]
[TO AN UNKNOWN LADY][35]
[SONG AND PAIN][36]
[PURPLE AND BLACK][37]
[WEST COUNTRY][38]
[FIRELIGHT][39]
[THE ESTAMINET][40]
[SONG][42]
[BALLAD OF THE THREE SPECTRES][43]
[COMMUNION][44]
[TIME AND THE SOLDIER][45]
[INFLUENCES][46]
[AFTER-GLOW][47]
[HAIL AND FAREWELL][48]
[PRAISE][49]
[WINTER BEAUTY][50]
[SONG OF PAIN AND BEAUTY][52]
[SPRING. ROUEN, MAY 1917][53]
[JUNE—TO—COME][57]
[“HARK, HARK, THE LARK”][59]
[SONG AT MORNING][60]
[TREES][61]
[REQUIEM][62]
[REQUIEM][63]
[REQUIEM][64]
SONNETS 1917:
[1. FOR ENGLAND][65]
[2. PAIN][66]
[3. SERVITUDE][67]
[4. HOME-SICKNESS][68]
[5. ENGLAND THE MOTHER][69]

SEVERN AND SOMME

TO CERTAIN COMRADES
(E. S. AND J. H.)

Living we loved you, yet withheld our praises
Before your faces;

And though we had your spirits high in honour,
After the English manner