Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs. — Edmund Blunden
Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs. — Edmund Blunden
Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs. — Edmund Blunden
Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs. — Edmund Blunden
Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs. — Edmund Blunden
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Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

— Edmund Blunden
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