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The Five Nations, Volume II

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A collection of poems presents varied portraits of imperial life, alternating lyric meditations and narrative sketches that examine duty, ceremony, and the costs of military service. Several pieces evoke remote landscapes and the routines of men on outposts or on the march, while others address public memory, faith, and private loss. Voices shift from colloquial to formal, mixing irony, solemnity, and exhortation, with recurring motifs of travel, comradeship, and the tension between patriotic pride and the sorrow or absurdity that accompanies conflict and empire.

INDEX TO FIRST LINES

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At times when under cover I ’ave said, 86
Files, 17
God of our fathers, known of old, 121
‘Here is nothing new nor aught unproven’ say the Trumpets, 1
Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run, 53
I do not love my Empire’s foes, 104
I wish my mother could see me now, with a fence-post under my arm, 64
Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, 13
Lived a woman wonderful, 49
Me that ’ave been what I’ve been, 59
No doubt but ye are the People—your throne is above the King’s, 31
Not in the camp his victory lies, 23
Only two African kopjes, 82
Out o’ the wilderness, dusty an’ dry, 72
Peace is declared, an’ I return, 117
Smells are surer than sounds or sights, 95
Sudden the desert changes, 8
The bachelor ’e fights for one, 91
The General ’eard the firin’ on the flank, 98
There is a word you often see, pronounce it as you may, 113
There is a world outside the one you know, 110
The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay, 40
We’re foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin’ over Africa! 88
We’ve rode and fought and ate and drunk as rations come to hand, 77
When by the labour of my ’ands, 102
Who recalls the twilight and the ranged tents in order, 26