E-text prepared by Al Haines
'THE POMP OF YESTERDAY'
by
JOSEPH HOCKING
Author of 'All for a Scrap of Paper,' 'Dearer than Life,'
'The Curtain of Fire,' etc.
"Far famed our Navies melt away,
On dune and headland sinks the fire,
Lo, all the pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre.
God of the Nations, spare us yet!
Lest we forget, lest we forget."
RUDYARD KIPLING.
Hodder and Stoughton
London —— New York —— Toronto