Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Some foxing. Nice older book in good condition. Dustcover worn. Year 1929. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Then -Curtius rose and rode; and earth ap- peased closed over him. I give you once again before the moss obliterates their names the toast of those who loved but left our tables having a work to do. Let an old limner ply his fading colours. Let a camp-follower tell. It was not in hate but in love that your son your brother your father went about his duty in Flanders. It was love with him all the time; love led him there for your sake. We of the islands small and close or far away and great do not deify our Flag or our Country as did the poilu. To us it is a cottage with creepers on it or one house in a street of many or a country lane or a school song that made the Salient impregnable. Every officer and every man among us had somewhere stowed away a wallet full of old letters and likenesses that were the true motive of his going to that dread place. As we went to and fro we were compassed about with a great cloud of witnesses and you were chief among their number. (SP)