Joan of France to an English Sister

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Joan of France to an English Sister

I. M. Edith Cavell, Nurse

Pitié que estoit au royaume de France."

Pity had I for my France my land

In the days so far that be,

Pity of heart and pity of hand --

And who had pity on me?

England's daughter, led out to die

For a deed of mercy and truth,

Guerdon of helper thou hast as I

From the men that have murdered ruth.

Sister of Joan by the pity, the spite,

Joy yet in the pain be thine:

We have armed our folk with a quenchless might,

Fire of thy bosom and mine.

-- J. H. S.

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Joan of France to an English Sister
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greatwar_cunliffe062
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Poems of the Great War
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