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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II. PART II
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The Deliverers
ανδρων γαρ επιφανων
Πασα γη ταφος.
Πασα γη ταφος.
The life they laid within God's hand
They kept; all else they gave.
Now are all lands their fatherland,
All earth their hallowed grave.
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For a War Memorial
From the Great Marshal to the last recruitThese Clifton, were thyself, thy spirit in deed,
Thy flower of chivalry, thy fallen fruit
And thine immortal seed.
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For a Village War Memorial in Church
These men of ours unselfish unafraidWent to the world wide fight
Forget not how they fought and how we prayed
For England and for right.
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Inscription in the Church of St. Thomas, Winchelsea.
AD MAJOREM DIE GLORIAM November XV, MCMXXVIII
These men of Rye Harbour, crew of the Lifeboat “Mary Stanford”having confirmed by the habit of a noble service
the courage handed down to them by their fathers
were quick to hear the cry of humanity
above the roaring of the sea.
In the darkness of their supreme hour
they stayed not to weigh doubt or danger
but freely offering their portion in this life
for the ransom of men whom they had never known
they went boldly into the last of all their storms.
Their names are here recorded in acknowledgement
that we have received in trust for England
the memory of their faithfulness and lovingkindness.
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Memorial Scroll for the Mercantile Marine
THIS SCROLL IS WRITTEN TO HONOUR
That great company of our menwho though trained only
to the peaceful traffic of the sea
yet in the hour of national danger
gave themselves with the ancient skill
and endurance of their breed
to face new perils and new cruelties of war
and in a right cause
served fearlessly to the end.
And this is written to ensure
that among the rest
shall be ever freshly remembered
the name and service of
This scroll accompanied by a letter from King George V was presented to the next of kin of the members of the Mercantile Marine who lost their lives through enemy action during the war.
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Welsh National Memorial
Remember here in peaceThose who in tumult of war
By sea on land in air
For us and for our victory
Endured unto death.
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