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    The Guards Came Through and Other Poems
    The Guards Came Through and Other Poems
    The Guards Came Through and Other Poems
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    The Guards Came Through and Other Poems

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and long-suffering sidekick Dr Watson. Conan Doyle was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

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      The Guards Came Through and Other Poems - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Guards Came Through and Other Poems, by

      Arthur Conan Doyle

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      Title: The Guards Came Through and Other Poems

      Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

      Release Date: November 21, 2011 [EBook #38071]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH ***

      Produced by Gerard Arthus; paksenarrion; Jana Srna; Special

      Collections, Florida State University; Lilly Library,

      Indiana University; Brooklyn Public Library; Morris Library,

      Southern Illinois University and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH

      AND OTHER POEMS

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      SONGS OF ACTION

      SONGS OF THE ROAD

      THE WHITE COMPANY

      MICAH CLARKE

      THE REFUGEES

      RODNEY STONE

      UNCLE BERNAC

      THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

      MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

      HIS LAST BOW: SOME REMINISCENCES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

      THE ADVENTURES OF BRIGADIER GERARD

      THE SIGN OF FOUR

      SIR NIGEL

      CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR

      ROUND THE RED LAMP

      THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS

      THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO

      A DUET, WITH AN OCCASIONAL CHORUS

      THE GREEN FLAG, AND OTHER STORIES

      THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD

      THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

      THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

      THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR

      ROUND THE FIRE STORIES

      THE LAST GALLEY

      THE LOST WORLD

      THE VALLEY OF FEAR

      DANGER! AND OTHER STORIES

      LONDON: JOHN MURRAY

      THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH

      AND OTHER POEMS

      BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

      AUTHOR OF

      SONGS OF ACTION, SONGS OF THE ROAD

      LONDON

      JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

      1919

      All Rights Reserved

      PREFACE

      I must apologize for the size of this booklet, which can only be justified on the grounds that there is some demand for the contents as recitations. I hope presently to combine whatever is worth preserving in my three volumes of verse, so as to make a single collection.

      Arthur Conan Doyle.

      CONTENTS

      THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH

      Men of the Twenty-first,

      Up by the Chalk Pit Wood,

      Weak from our wounds and our thirst,

      Wanting our sleep and our food

      After a day and a night.

      God! shall I ever forget?

      Beaten and broke in the fight,

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