Page:Poems, Volume 1, Coates, 1916.djvu/152

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TO THE RETURNING BRAVE

Your standards fair in honor furled,
The proudest mother in the world!


Come home! The Land that sent you forth
From East and West, from South and North,
Looks wistfully beyond her gates,
Extends her arms and waits!