Page:Soldier poets, songs of the fighting men, 1916.djvu/63

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John Lodge

Then hither shalt them wing thy lonely flight
And put upon thee robes of mortal mesh
Laid up against the season of thy birth—
And oh, I pray that undefil'd and bright
The warp and woof may be of that fair flesh
Wherewith endued thou shalt appear on earth.

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