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Who would not die for England	A
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This great thought	B
Through centuries of Glory handed down	C
By storied vault in monumental fane	D
And homeless grave in lone barbaric lands	E
Homeless but not forgotten so can thrill	F
With its imperious call the hearts of men	G
That suddenly from dwarf ignoble lives	H
They rise to heights of nobleness and spurn	I
The languid couch of safety to embrace	J
Duty and Death that evermore were twin	K
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Who would not die for England ''	-
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Thus He said	L
Who at the holiest of all English hearths	M
The holiest and the highest had been given	N
A seat an English Princess for his Bride	O
Now at that hearth weeping her widowed tears	P
Bitter and barren as the winter rain	D
It is not meet that I whom this famed Isle	Q
This generous mighty and majestic Land	R
Ennobled as her son should not repay	S
Her splendid gift of kinship Let me go	T
Go where they go Her world researching race	J
That slumber pillowed on the half drawn sword	U
And wake at whisper of her will to greet	V
Duty and Death that evermore were twin ''	-
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Who would not die for England	A
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And for Her	W
He dies who whether in the fateful fight	X
Or in the marish jungle where She bids	Y
Far from encircling fondness far from kiss	Z
Of clinging babes hushes his human heart	A2
And stern to every voice but Hers obeys	B2
Duty and Death that evermore were twin	K
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So across the far off foam	C2
Bring him hither bring him home	C2
Over avenues of wave	D2
English ground to English grave	D2
Where his soldier dust may rest	E2
England's Flag above his breast	E2
And love tended long may bloom	F2
English flowers about his tomb	F2
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Who would not die for England that can give	G2
A sepulture like this 'mid hamlet crofts	H2
And comely cottages with old world flowers	I2
And rustic seats for labour palsied limbs	J2
The pensioners of Peace I linger here	K2
Pondering the dark inexplicable Night	X
Here by this river girt sequestered shrine	L2
Whose vanished walls were reared anew by Him	M2
Of Princes the most princely if it be	N2
That Wisdom Love and Virtue more adorn	O2
Sarcophagus of Kings than dripping spears	P2
Lone wailing hearths and hecatombs of slain	D
And He too died for England He who lived	Q2
Scorning all joy save that great joy of all	R2
The love of one true woman She a Queen	S2
Empress and Queen yet not the more revered	T2
Not the more loved for those resounding names	U2
Than for the lowlier titles Gracious Good	V2
The Worthiest of Women ever crowned	W2
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Sweetest Consort sagest Prince	X2
Snows on snows have melted since	X2
England lost you late to learn	I
Worth that never can return	I
Learned to know you as you were	W
Known till then alone to Her	W
Luminous as sun at noon	Y2
Tender as the midnight moon	Y2
Steadfast as the steered by star	Z2
Wise as Time and Silence are	Z2
Deaf to vain belittling lie	A3
Deaf to gibing jealousy	N2
Thinking only of the goal	B3
And like every lofty soul	B3
Scanning with a far off smile	Q
The revilings of the vile	Q
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Yes He too died for England thence withdrawn	C3
Dim to that undiscoverable land	R
Where our lost loved ones dwell with wistful eyes	D3
And lips that look but speak not But away	S
Away from these soft whispering waves that make	E3
A dulcet dirge around the new delved grave	D2
To bluff East Anglia where on wind swept lawns	F3
The sanguine crocus peeps from underground	W2
To feel the sun and only finds the snow	T
And whinnying on the norland blast the surge	G3
Leaps against iron coast with iron hoof	H3
As though the hosts of Denmark foamed afresh	I3
Caparisoned for ravin And I see	N2
A cradle not a coffin and therein	K
Another Child to England and veiled Fate	J3
Over it bent with deep divining gaze	B2
And with oracular lips like nurse inspired	K3
Foretelling the fair Future	W
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Another Albert shalt Thou be so known	L3
So known so honoured and His name shall stand	R
The sponsor to your spotlessness until	F
Dawns the full day when conscious of your soul	B3
Your soul your self and that high mission laid	M3
On all of such begetting you may seize	N3
The sceptre of your will and thus wise armed	O3
Against the sirens of disloyal sense	P3
Like to your pure progenitor abide	O
In God's stern presence and surrender never	W
That last prerogative of all your race	J
To live and die for England ''	-

Alfred Austin

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