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Our King went forth on pilgrimage	A
His prayers and vows to pay	B
To them that saved our heritage	A
And cast their own away	B
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And there was little show of pride	C
Or prows of belted steel	D
For the clean swept oceans every side	C
Lay free to every keel	D
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And the first land he found it was shoal and banky ground	E
Where the broader seas begin	F
And a pale tide grieving at the broken harbour mouth	G
Where they worked the death ships in	F
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And there was neither gull on the wing	H
Nor wave that could not tell	I
Of the bodies that were buckled in the life buoy's ring	H
That slid from swell to swell	I
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All that they had they gave they gave and they shall not return	J
For these are those that have no grave where any heart may mourn	K
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And the next land he found it was low and hollow ground	E
Where once the cities stood	L
But the man high thistle had been master of it all	M
Or the bulrush by the flood	N
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And there was neither blade of grass	O
Nor lone star in the sky	P
But shook to see some spirit pass	O
And took its agony	Q
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And the next land be found it was bare and hilly round	E
Where once the bread corn grew	R
But the fields were cankered and the water was defiled	E
And the trees were riven through	R
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And there was neither paved highway	B
Nor secret path in the wood	E
But had borne its weight of the broken clay	B
And darkened 'neath the blood	E
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Father and mother they put aside and the nearer love also	S
An hundred thousand men who died whose graves shall no man	T
know	S
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And the last land he found it was fair and level ground	E
About a carven stone	U
And a stark Sword brooding on the bosom of the Cross	V
Where high and low are one	W
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And there was grass and the living trees	X
And the flowers of the spring	H
And there lay gentlemen from out of all the seas	X
That ever called him King	H
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'Twixt Nieuport sands and the eastward lands where the Four Red Rivers spring	H
Five hundred thousand gentlemen of those that served their King	H
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All that they had they gave they gave	Y
In sure and single faith	Z
There can no knowledge reach the grave	Y
To make them grudge their death	A2
Save only if they understood	E
That after all was done	W
We they redeemed denied their blood	E
And mocked the gains it won	W

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