 WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill : Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into...  The Quarterly Review - Page 147edited by - 1919Full view - About this book
 | 1917 - 996 pages
...rnnrVi an of SftrvipP «" wna awr fho against whom Nietzsche revolted. FOR THE FALLEN BY LAURENCE BINYON WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They... | |
 | 1916 - 756 pages
...and bale, Burningly offered up, — to bleed, To bear, to break, but not to fail ! FOR THE FALLEN.* With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They... | |
 | Laurence Binyon - 1914 - 48 pages
...doom and bale Burningly offered up, — to bleed, To bear, to break, but not to fail ! FOR THE FALLEN WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1916 - 336 pages
...your secret eyes, and sow for us, that we must reap again ? — William Rose Ben6t. FOR THE FALLEN WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They... | |
 | George Herbert Clarke - 1917 - 460 pages
...the lands he won ; For he has left in keeping His sword unto his son. Henry Newbolt FOR THE FALLEN WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They... | |
 | English Association - 1917 - 198 pages
...laughter, learnt of friends ; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. Rupert Brooke. WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady%and aglow. They... | |
 | George Herbert Clarke - 1917 - 322 pages
...little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king." John Masefield FOR THE FALLEN WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They... | |
 | George Herbert Clarke - 1917 - 324 pages
...little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king." John Masefidd FOR THE FALLEN WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They... | |
 | Laurence Binyon - 1917 - 132 pages
...doom and bale, Burningly offered up, — to bleed, To bear, to break, but not to fail ! FOR THE FALLEN WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They... | |
 | Frederick Homes Dudden - 1917 - 172 pages
...now, the day will surely come when we shall thank God for granting to them and to us that glory. " With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,...desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears." And that is the first consolation of the bereaved — the sublime grandeur of the death, the thought... | |
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