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A Treasury of War Poetry

by George Herbert Clarke

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The Debt Unpayable

What have I given,
  Bold sailor on the sea,
In earth or heaven,
  That you should die for me?

What can I give,
  O soldier, leal and brave,
Long as I live,
  To pay the life you gave?

What tithe or part
  Can I return to thee,
O stricken heart,
  That thou shouldst break for me?

The wind of Death
  For you has slain life’s flowers,
It withereth
  (God grant) all weeds in ours.

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