Charles John Beech Masefield

I sometimes think that I have lived too long,
Who have heard so many a gay brave singer's song
Fail him for ever. ~ seen so many sails
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Humbly, O England, we offer what is of little worth,
Just our bodies and souls and everything else we have;
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I sometimes think that I have lived too long,
Who have heard so many a gay brave singer's song
Fail him for ever seen so many sails
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To need any more the skies or man to importune
For us departing to-day with spirits at peace,
Now that the inner warfares, that tire men, cease
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I was so vague in 1914; tossed
Upon too many purposes, and worthless;
Moody; to this world or the other lost,
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