"With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea," Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), British poet, critic. For the Fallen (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres." Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), British poet, critic. For the Fallen (l. 5-6). . .
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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