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John Le Gay Brereton - Light Loss

2014-11-10 7 Dailymotion

“Our loss was light,” the paper said,
“Compared with damage to the Hun”:
She was a widow, and she read
One name upon the list of dead
Her son, her only son.

John Le Gay Brereton

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