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BELGIUM, 1914.

Liège Louvain Malines Alost....

Like tolling of a church bell slow,

Like saints’ names murmured these shall flow....

Liège Louvain Malines Alost.

Agnes K. Gray.

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TO FRANCE, 1916.

(The glorious epic of Verdun. “Il ne passeront pas.”)

Joyous the lark shall soar above the green

That clothes the fallen, glad the corn shall wave;

Old eyes shall glow, recalling what hath been,

And how a new France blossomed from the grave.

Thou livest to all time, Verdun. Thy dead?

One hath them in His charge. Be comforted.

“Touchstone” in Punch.