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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!!!)
2 Answers
- ?Lv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
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.
- SmurfLv 71 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!