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The Poems of Alice Meynell
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Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson (1847-1922)
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The Poems of Alice Meynell
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“LORD, I OWE THEE A DEATH”
Richard Hooker
[_]
(IN TIME OF WAR)
Man
pays that debt with new munificence,
Not piecemeal now, not slowly, by the old:
Not grudgingly, by the effaced thin pence,
But greatly and in gold.
The Poems of Alice Meynell
