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A perpetual memory

and other poems: By Henry Newbolt: With brief memoirs by Walter de la Mare and Ralph Furse and a portrait by Sir William Rothenstein

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Poet's Epitaph

What I was and yet shall be
You have seen and could not see.
Say then only “Here below
Lies a Worm without his Glow.”