A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Belgium

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To the Belgians
A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919
edited by George Herbert Clarke
Belgium by Edith Wharton
A Flemish Village
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BELGIUM

La Belgique ne regrette rien

NOT with her ruined silver spires,
Not with her cities shamed and rent,
Perish the imperishable fires
That shape the homestead from the tent.


Wherever men are staunch and free,
There shall she keep her fearless state,
And homeless, to great nations be
The home of all that makes them great.


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