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Chapter I

TO M. M. S.

A few of the poems in this volume have already appeared in print: “The Volunteer,” “In a Ward,” and “The Battalion is now on Rest” in The Spectator; “The Immortal Hour” in The Westminster Gazette; “The Day of Victory” in The Gloucester Journal; and “After Music” in The R.C.M, Magazine. The author desires to thank the respective editors for their kind permission to include these poems in the present collection.

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HOSPITAL PICTURES (To the Nurses of Ward 24, Bangour War Hospital, near Edinburgh)

1. LADIES OF CHARITY

2. DUST

3. “ABERDONIAN”

4. COMPANION—NORTH-EAST DUGOUT

5. THE MINER

6. UPSTAIRS PIANO

DICKY (To his Memory)

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THE TOWER (To M. H.)

Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.

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