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 74 LORD CREWE

��A HARROW GRAVE IN FLANDERS

Here in the marshland, past the battered bridge,

One of a hundred grains untimely sown, Here, with his comrades of the hard-won ridge He rests, unknown.

His horoscope had seemed so plainly drawn.

School triumphs, earned apace in work and play ; Friendships at will ; then love's delightful dawn And mellowing day.

Home fostering hope ; some service to the State ;

Benignant age ; then the long tryst to keep Where in the yew-tree shadow congregate His fathers sleep.

Was here the one thing needful to distil

From life's alembic, through this holier fate. The man's essential soul, the hero-will ? We ask ; and wait.

— Crewe.

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