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I am Miss Pancake Taylor. I have come from very far away to take care of my family Craig and Zita and Niamh and Emmet. Sometimes I have helpers; my friends the Blackthorn-Badgers. They are very old Scotsmen. I am very glad to meet you.

Thursday, 29 August 2013

The Challenge of the Guns

BY day, by night, along the lines their dull boom rings,   
And that reverberating roar its challenge flings.   
Not only unto thee across the narrow sea,   
But from the loneliest vale in the last land’s heart   
The sad-eyed watching mother sees her sons depart.           

And freighted full the tumbling waters of ocean are   
With aid for England from England’s sons afar.   
The glass is dim; we see not wisely, fax, nor well,   
But bred of English bone, and reared on Freedom’s wine,   
All that we have and are we lay on England’s shrine.


A. N. Field       
 

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