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A. NEWBERRY CHOYCE

Lieut., Leicestershire Regiment

Supermen

SOME souls there are
Who in their trial hours
Bathe in the very blood
Which flows around the heart of Life,
And know its joy—and know its agony.
Daring to follow impulse
That any God Himself would not resist.


Stand back!
You weaklings of the world
Boasting the name of men.
Preening yourselves
And judging with your
"God this——" and "God that——"
Dare not to come
Near these.


Stay with your narrow Gods
Who smugly sit
Within four chapel walls
On Sundays,

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