Page:Flower of youth, poems in war time, Tynan, 1915.djvu/27

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"WHAT TURNED THE GERMANS BACK?"
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White Genevieve upon her hill
Prays, and the German hosts retreat.
She plucks the Robes of Heaven still
That Heaven give victory for defeat;
And keeps her motley flock in sight,
The black, the speckled and the white.