Poem by William Watson

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When birds were songless on the bough
    I heard thee sing.
The world was full of winter, thou
    Wert full of spring.

To-day the world's heart feels anew
    The vernal thrill,
And thine beneath the rueful yew
    Is wintry chill.

1. Liberty Rejected
2. The Battle of the Bight
3. Well He Slumbers, Greatly Slain
4. The Russ at Kara
5. England and Her Colonies

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