Who wrote "The call was short the shock severe"?
By @edent
· meme OpenBenches poem · 2 comments · 500 words
A few weeks ago, someone uploaded this memorial bench to our site: It is a perfectly pleasant little memorial poem. I wondered about its origins. A quick search shows that the opening couplet was used on war graves from 1916. But are its origins any earlier than that? One of the problems of trying to […]
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