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To Certain Comrades
(E. S. and J. H.)
LIVING we loved you, yet withheld our praises
Before your faces.
And though our spirits had you high in honour!
After the English manner,
We said no word. Yet as such comrades would,
You understood.
Such friendship is not touched by death's disaster,
But stands the faster.
And all the shocks and trials of time cannot
Shake it one jot.
Beside the fire at night some far December
We shall remember
And tell men unbegotten as yet the story
Of your sad glory.
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