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 CHARLES JOHN BEECH MASEFIELD

(Killed in Action, July, 1917)

Enlisted, or The Recruits

UMBLY, O England, we offer what is of little worth,

Just our bodies and souls and everything else we have;

But thou with thy holy cause wilt hallow our common earth,

Giving us strength in the battle—and peace, if need, in the grave.

Humble, O England, we are, for of hero-fathers we come,

Men that contested with tyrants the mightier destinies;

Philip of Spain we remember, and the ships that never went home,

And him that was caught at last, and isled in the warder seas.

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