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England To Germany In 1914

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"O England, may God punish thee!"     - Is it that Teuton genius flowers     Only to breathe malignity     Upon its friend of earlier hours?     - We have eaten your bread, you have eaten ours,     We have loved your burgs, your pines' green moan,     Fair Rhine-stream, and its storied towers;     Your shining souls of deathless dowers     Have won us as they were our own:     We have nursed no dreams to shed your blood,     We have matched your might not rancorously,     Save a flushed few whose blatant mood     You heard and marked as well as we     To tongue not in their country's key;     But yet you cry with face aflame,     "O England, may God punish thee!"     And foul in onward history,     And present sight, your ancient name.     Autumn 1914.

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