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Title: Songs of the Army of the Night

Author: Francis Adams

Release Date: April 27, 2010 [eBook #32153]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF THE ARMY OF THE NIGHT***

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SONGS
OF THE
ARMY OF THE NIGHT.

* * * * *

BY
FRANCIS ADAMS.

* * * * *

"_For the cause of Labour all over the Earth_."

* * * * *

SECOND EDITION.

* * * * *

London:
WILLIAM REEVES, 185, FLEET STREET, E.C.

TO EDITH.

"My sweet, my child, through all this night
Of dark and wind and rain,
Where thunder crashes, and the light
Sears the bewildered brain,

"It is your face, your lips, your eyes
I see rise up; I hear
Your voice that sobs and calls and cries,
Or shrills and mocks at fear.

"O this that's mine is yours as well,
For side by side our feet
Trod through these bitter brakes of hell.
Take it, my child, my sweet!"

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Preface 11
This Book 15
SONGS OF THE ARMY OF THE NIGHT.
_Proem_:--"Outside London" 18
_PART I.--ENGLAND_.
In the Camp 19
"Axiom" 20
Drill 20
Evening Hymn in the Hovels 21
In the Street: "Lor