Harold Begbie Poems

'What will you lack, sonny, what will you lack,
When the girls line up the street
Shouting their love to the lads to come back
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When men are told in years ahead
How Fury forced the Belgian door
And ravished maids, struck children dead,
And fired the houses of the poor,
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Not by the valour of Belgium, nor the lightning sabre of France,
Not by the thunder of Britain's Fleet, and the Bear's unchecked advance,
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