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Part of The Cenotaph in The Westminster Gazette (facsimile of 1919 clipping), 1919

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September 27,
MEW.
1919 THE CENOTAPH. By CH
Not
yetwill those measureless fieldsbe green again
Where

on
wild
ly
sweet
blood
y eofs
wonderful
ter
youth
day

th

Thereis a grave whoseearth
must hold too long, too deep a stain,
hough for ever over 1t we may speak as proudly
as we may
tread,
But
here, wheret h e w a thearths
ch
from
er
lh«.s
the thrust
b
ofy l o n
an i n wsword
a r dhave more slowl
.
y
b
Weshall build the Cenotaph: Victory, winged, with Peace,
winged too, at the column's head.
•
nd over the stairway,
at
--oh!
I here, leave desolate, pa
t
•
things

•

•

Such a brave, gay coverlet to such a bed!.
Only, when all is done and
and said,
God is not mocked and neither are. the dead..
·· For this will stand in our Market-place--

Who'llsell,

who'll
buy

(Will you or I
Lie each to eachwith the better grace)?

While looking into every busy whore's
and huckster's
face
As tliey drive their bargains, i s t h
_ e Fac
: e
Of God : and some young, piteous, murdered f a c e .

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