A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Hic Jacet Qui in Hoc Saeculo Fideliter Militavit

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A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919
edited by George Herbert Clarke
Hic Jacet Qui in Hoc Saeculo Fideliter Militavit by Henry Newbolt
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HIC JACET

QUI IN HOC SAECULO FIDELITER

MILITAVIT

HE that has left hereunder
The signs of his release
Feared not the battle's thunder
Nor hoped that wars should cease;
No hatred set asunder
His warfare from his peace.


Nor feared he in his sleeping
To dream his work undone,
To hear the heathen sweeping
Over the lands he won;
For he has left in keeping
His sword unto his son.

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