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Biography of Herbert Asquith
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Herbert Asquith was born in 1881, he was the second son of the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister (1908-1916), and often times people would get them confused with one another. Asquith was a poet, novelist and lawyer. He married his wife, Cynthia, in 1910, and she too was a writer.
Asquith served in France during World War I. He died in 1947.
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Popular Poems
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The Volunteer
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Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent
Toiling at ledgers in a city grey,
Thinking that so his days would drift away
With no lance broken in life’s tournament:
Yet ever ’twixt the books and his bright eyes
The gleaming eagles of the legions came,
And horsemen, charging under phantom skies,
Went thundering past beneath the oriflamme.
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