Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Great Regulars: The best known of these pre-Remembrance poems

is [Thomas] Hardy's "Song of the Soldiers", whose repeated phrase, "Men who march away" gave Ian Parsons the title for his anthology of poems of the First World War (1987). Hardy's poem was printed in the TLS of September 10, 1914.

Song of the Soldiers

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Song of the Soldiers

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