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1878–1917

A PRIVATE

Edward Thomas

THIS ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores: “At Mrs. Greenland's Hawthorn Bush,” said he,

“I slept.” None knew which bush. Above the town, Beyond “The Drover,” a hundred spot the down In Wiltshire. And where now at last he sleeps More sound in France — that, too, he secret keeps.

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