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O valiant Hearts, who to your glory came
Through dust of conflict and through battle-flame;
Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved,
Your memory hallowed in the Land you loved.

— John Arkwright The Supreme Sacrifice and Other Poems in Time of War (1919)

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Still, through the veil, the Victor's pitying eyes
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