ENGLAND TO FREE MEN

JOHN GALSWORTHY

[Men of my blood], you English men!

From misty hill and misty fen,

From cot, and town, and plow, and moor.

Come in—before I shut the door!

Into my courtyard paved with stones

That keep the names, that keep the bones,

Of none but English men who came

[Free of their lives], to guard my fame.