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June 4 Edmund Blunden

1 December 20151 August 2016 Peter Wood

FOREFATHERS

Edmund Blunden’s “Forefathers”, written in the earlier years of our own century, owes something to these earlier poems, but adds a feeling of fellowship and continuity with the older generation:

Here they went with smock and crook,
Toiled in the sun, lolled in the shade,

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