| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 54870 |
| QUOTATION: | Earth that bore with joyful ease
Hemlock for Socrates,
Earth that blossomed and was glad
‘Neath the cross that Christ had,
Shall rejoice and blossom too
When the bullet reaches you. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915), Scottish poet. All the Hills and Vales Along (l. 21–26). . .
Oxford Book of War Poetry, The. Jon Stallworthy, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press. |
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