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HERE is freshness, vigor and virility to these verses—they have the sweep and swing and breeziness of the free, open spaces of the West in which they were created. While, on the one hand, they portray simple and elemental human moods, they reveal also a wonderfully sympathetic understanding of the secret emotions that have been profoundly stirred by the tragedies of the Great War.