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64533: L'Envoi

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posted on 2024-05-02, 15:13 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Only a turn of head,
A good-bye lightly said,
And you set out to tread
Your manlier road.

Both our Youth's paths once met;
And think now we forget
How great a brothers' debt
To you is owed.

Sweep onward; and though Fame
Shall aureole your name,
Remember whence you came
In Boyhood days.

And in life''s darkening years
Look back on hopes and fears
Mingled with memory's tears
And blame and praise.

History

Identifier

4083.txt

Creator

Leighton, Roland (1895-1915)

Type

Poem

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The Roland Leighton Literary Estate

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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