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112 They fought for honour, these soldier poets, and for lofty principles of right and liberty, but nearly always you may glimpse in their verses that they fought also for a simple, natural love of home or some place in the homeland which they had given their hearts to and were ready to keep inviolate with their lives. As Kipling has it,

and the one such spot for Donald Goold Johnson inspired his glowing stanzas to Cambridge, 'Mother and Sons,' written a few months before he sailed for France: