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The Young Guard

E. W. Hornung

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ing fool, low down in the school,

And no good at games was he—

All fingers and thumbs—and very few chums.

(I wish he'd shake hands with me!)"


"Who is the one with the heavy stick,

Who seems to walk from the shoulder?"

"Why, many's the goal you have watched him

kick!"

"He's looking a lifetime older.

Who is the one that's so full of fun—

I never beheld a blither—

Yet his eyes are fixt as the furrow betwixt?"

"He cannot see out of eit. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This is a little book of poetry by my favorite author, all on the theme of WWI and both the loss and the glory thereof. It is, like all Hornung's works, an absolute product of its time and place (England, 1919).

I am not, in general, a fan of poetry because I don't usually have the patience for it a

Though I do enjoy reading History, I'm not the type of person that picks up every war book and reads it by chance. According to this book, it's written, "'Chance' is no answer, unless the word be help to cover organic tissue of chances, each in turn closely related to some other chance, all componen

I did not like this collection of First World War poetry and memoirs. Mr Hornsung was too old to serve in the army so volunteered for the YMCA behind lines keeping up the morale of the men, serving innumerable mugs of cocoa and running a library. I sound unkind, but that was how it read. Very twee,