![]() The sonnets 'for Dreyfus,' having been written in eager indignation and sympathy while this book was actually passing through the press, are possibly too much touched by the heat and passion of the moment, and hardly give enough honour to those true sons and daughters of France who have, by stupendous effort and at immeasurable sacrifice and risk, done their utmost to right a great wrong.Īs for the rest of the book, the harvestings here tied together make a sheaf in which the red poppies may, if Offered to my friends, seem to the passer-bygood for little but to send him to sleep, and the ears of corn hardly worthy to be laid upon the Altar. ![]() A few of the poems have not appeared before. ![]()
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