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The Worn Doorstep

By Margaret Pollock Sherwood

2019-01-29 19:14:15

The grey war-cloud drifts closer and grows darker. Namur has fallen into German hands; there are rumours—God grant that they are not true!—that the French and the English troops are retreating. In spite of the entire confidence of the people here ... Read more
The grey war-cloud drifts closer and grows darker. Namur has fallen into German hands; there are rumours—God grant that they are not true!—that the French and the English troops are retreating. In spite of the entire confidence of the people here in their island security, there is fear in my heart for England, this England which seems so remote from cruel struggle, as if created in some moment of Nature's relenting, when she was almost ready to take back her fell purpose,—it is so full of fragrances, of soft colours of flowers, of softer green of hedgerows and meadows. There is something in you, you Englishmen of finer type, shaped by this beauty, quiet and self-contained, of hill and dale and meadow. Surely in you too I know this quietness, this coolness, the still ways of the streams. Less

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File size168.449 KB
Print pages108
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-09-09
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1546982678
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Margaret Pollock Sherwood
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Born in Ballston, N.Y., The United States November 01, 1864 Genre: Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction Professor of English at Wellesley College, 1889-1931. Sister of women's health pioneer D...

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