Excerpt from Flying Over London and Other Verses

During the tense years from 1914 to 1918 many men and women who had been quite contented to be pedestrians moving to the time of a steady and dependable prose, found themselves tempted to try the wings of verse. Some men found the old lyric impulse of college days returning and bent their words to unaccustomed measures. The verses which follow came from such a motive, and the only reason for their appearance in this form is that they have served some sort of purpose in aiding in the mobilization of the invisible resources of the people as they have been published in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic, and a good many people both in England and America have asked for them.

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