Those who serve England<\/p>\n
Must expect nothing from her<\/p>\n
We debase ourselves<\/p>\n
If we regard our country<\/p>\n
As merely a place to eat and sleep<\/p>\n
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She is a mother and a wife a sister too<\/p>\n
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Who is shy and retiring yet full of grace<\/p>\n
I adore her sweet breezes and feminine face<\/p>\n
Her wooded lanes her kingfisher streams<\/p>\n
These are the songs of my blush flower dreams<\/p>\n
I admire her long summers her perfumes light<\/p>\n
And this the reason that I will stand and fight<\/p>\n
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No hostile feet will tread on her golden fields<\/p>\n
No foreign voices will shatter her silent wealds<\/p>\n
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Note –\u00a0 The first five lines of this poem are taken from a letter written by Vivian Rosewarne to his mother which was printed in The Times on the 18th of June 1940.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The remaining fragments were written by an unknown poet whose name is lost to the years but I thought worth recording in this short poem\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n SMO\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Those who serve England Must expect nothing from her We debase ourselves If we regard our country As merely a place to eat and sleep She is a mother and a wife a sister too Who is shy and retiring yet full of grace I adore her sweet breezes and feminine face Her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9800,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796\/revisions\/9800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}