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Rh pocket sketch-book and over half a dozen of his twenty-six poems. He put his love of home into the lines addressed to 'J. C. F.' less than two months before he fought his last fight:

But it is a sense of the tragedy and waste of it all that moves him in the rest of his war verse, as in the unfinished 'Carol for Christmas, 1914';

On a dark midnight such as this

Nearly two thousand years ago,

Three kings looked out towards the East

Where a single star shone low....

Be with them, Lord, in camp and field

Who guard our ancient name to-night.

Hark to the cry that rises now,

Lord, Lord, maintain us in our right.