On Remembrance Sunday 2008 (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, November 09, 2008, 20:36 (5846 days ago) @ admin

If We Return
by F.W. Harvey

If we return, will England be
Just England still to you and me?
The place where we must earn our bread?
We who have walked among the dead,
And watched the smile of agony,
And seen the price of Liberty,
Which we had taken carelessly

From other hands. Nay, we shall dread,
If we return,
Dread lest we hold blood-guiltily
The things that men have died to free.
Oh, English fields shall blossom red
For all the blood that has been shed
By men whose guardians are we,
If we return.

for a little more on
F.W. Harvey

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=7769

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