Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon

A Song

For Mercy, Courage, Kindness, Mirth,
There is no measure upon earth.
Nay, they wither, root and stem,
If an end be set to them.

Overbrim and overflow,
If you own heart you would know;
For the spirit born to bless
Lives but in its own excess.

1. The Zeppelin
2. No More Now with Jealous Complaining
3. Edith Cavell
4. A Child in Nature, as a Child in Years
5. In Memory of George Calderon

Helen Williams A Song ("No riches from his scanty store")

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