"On the green they watched their sons
Playing till too dark to see,
As their fathers watched them once,
As my father once watched me;"
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), British poet, critic. Forefathers (l. 19-22). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"Like the bee that now is blown,
Honey-heavy on my hand,
From his toppling tansy-throne
In the green tempestuous land—"
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), British poet, critic. Forefathers (l. 31-34). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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