Masefield

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Masefield by Florence Earle Coates Fugitive verse

As rendered in The North American Review (May 1922):

MASEFIELD

BY FLORENCE EARLE COATES
On re-reading Gallipoli and the Sonnets

I thought on England in her tragic hour  Of sacrifice supreme for human right;  Beheld her bleeding, broken in the fight With a massed tyranny's stupendous power; And musing on far graves where lie her flower  Of manhood, memory so dimmed my sight  That I forgot the dawn that crowned her night— The victory that was her valor's dower. Then, even as I grieved, I saw once more  How genius can atone and re-create: How, by its own high gift, it can restore  The Land that gives it birth to sovereign State, Rekindling glories that it knew before,  And deepening its life to life as great!

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