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ORGAN SONGS: HOME FROM THE WARS by GEORGE MACDONALD

Poet Analysis

First Line: A TATTERED SOLDIER, GONE THE GLOW AND GLOSS
Last Line: I ONLY FACED THE FOE, AND DID NOT FLEE.
Subject(s): COURAGE; SOLDIERS; WAR; VALOR; BRAVERY;
A TATTERED soldier, gone the glow and gloss,
With wounds half healed, and sorely trembling knee,
Homeward I come, to claim no victory-cross:
I only faced the foe, and did not flee.



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