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The Vigil

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The Vigil

By: Henry Newbolt
Narrated by: Phillip J. Mather
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The narrator pledges to donate 50% of his proceeds to The Royal British Legion Poppy Day Appeal - please support. This World War I poem by Henry Newbolt exhorts the British people to face the onset of war with the belief that God will defend their efforts in a righteous cause, exhorting the nation to “Pray that God defend the Right”. The Vigil was published in 1914, in “Poems of the Great War”, the net profits of which were donated to the Prince of Wales’ Fund.

Public Domain (P)2014 Phillip Mather
Classics Poetry War
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