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And the same spirit, the same tenderness, the same turning of his thoughts homewards to 'the best of all' are in the hitherto unpublished lines he sent to his mother for her birthday, on the 27th November 1903:

The most charming of love songs are his two called 'Roses,' one from Pretoria, and one from Shanghai; and the spirit of his loyal comradeship glows in his lines, 'To the Others':