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ksnevill asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Anyone tell me the poem containing the lines "bone of our bone, blood of our blood, brothers since time began"?

My mum, now age 59, studied this at school and wants to know the poem. She doesn't know the first line or author. It was in a book published by Faber at the time (about 45 years ago!!!)

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    I will only give you the one of six verses,

    By Alexander Gray.1882-1967.

    This is my country, the land that begat me.

    These windy spaces are surely my own.

    And those who here toil in the sweat of there faces,

    Are flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bone.

    Broonie.

  • Smurf
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The only one that comes to mind is:

    Ancestors

    Your tombstone stands among the rest

    Neglected and alone.

    The name and date are chiseled out

    On polished, marbled stone.

    It reaches out to all who care

    It is too late to mourn.

    You did not know that I exist.

    You died and I was born.

    Yet each of us are cells of you

    In flesh, in blood, in bone.

    Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

    Entirely not our own.

    Dear Ancestor,

    the place you filled

    One hundred years ago

    Spreads out among the ones you left

    Who would have loved you so.

    I wonder if you lived and loved,

    I wonder if you knew

    That someday I would find this spot,

    And come to visit you.

    or this one:

    THE RALLY.

    They said, ' She is old, this England

    Old and her children few,

    And scattered far at the ends of earth

    Each with his work to do.

    Each thinking only of self and pelf,

    And no one thinking of her

    Shall we call the pack her hands are full

    Shall we bite she cannot stir!'

    Did she cry for help, our England?

    What need had she to call

    The yell of snarling hounds went forth,

    And was heard by her children all

    Sons and their sons and their children's sons,

    From the white to the torrid zone;

    Britannia's brood, blood of her blood

    And bone of her very bone!

    See, from the fields of old England,

    The children about her knee,

    And see from Scotland's heather hills,

    The free sons of the free,

    And see from Ireland's huts and halls

    Bravest they of the brave

    The empire that their hands have built,

    Her loyal sons shall save!

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