Edmund Gosse in his introduction gives a biographical sketch of the author, an Englishman of French descent who, altho past military age, enlisted at the beginning of the war and was killed in 1917. Among the war poems are England and the sea, The call; The Indian army; A legend of the fleet; To the United States; Christmas, 1914; To Canada; Before the assault. These are followed by a small group of “other verses” on such themes as The July garden, Friendship, To an English sheep-dog. The volume was published in England in the fall of 1917.
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“In Lieutenant Vernède’s unhesitating and uncompromising verse the man sustains the poet, but the poet merits that support.” O. W. Firkins
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“Some of the finest poems that have come from the trenches. They are instinct with an exalted patriotism.”
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