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92 sacrifice it is possible to imagine,' he wrote to his brother in February.... 'I am with you, and very close, too; for after all, am I not fighting for the little home in peaceful England that is at present so sad?'

His only poems of the war are a translation into verse of the speech delivered by M. Henri Lavisse at the Sorbonne in December 1914; a quaint Struwwelpeter parody:

and 'Pro Patria,' to the Empire's Service of Wireless Operators with whom he had been associated in his peace-time business: