The theme for this month's WW1 poetry is
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Elegy in a Country Churchyard
by
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G K Chesterton
1874- 1936
The men that worked for England
They have their graves at home:
And bees and birds of England
About the cross can roam.
But they that fought for England,
Following a falling star,
Alas, alas for England
They have their graves afar.
And they that rule in England,
In stately conclave met,
Alas, alas for England,
They have no graves as yet.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher,
poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, and biographer.
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