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The last poems of Alice Meynell

“LORD, I OWE THEE A DEATH”

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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.

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