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    The Soul of a Nation
    The Soul of a Nation
    The Soul of a Nation
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    The Soul of a Nation

    By Phillip Gibbs

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Soul of a Nation - Phillip Gibbs

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      Title: The Soul of a Nation

      Author: Phillip Gibbs

      Release Date: November 6, 2012 [EBook #41308]

      Language: English

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      THE SOUL OF A NATION

      BY SIR PHILLIP GIBBS

      Author of Now it may be told

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      TORONTO GLOBE

      Armistice Day, 1920

      It did not seem an unknown warrior whose body came on a gun carriage down Whitehall, where we were waiting for him. He was known to us all. It was one of our boys (not warriors), as we called them in the days of darkness lit by faith.

      To some women, weeping a little in the crowd after an all-night vigil, he was their boy who went missing one day and was never found till now, though their souls went searching for him through the dreadful places in the night.

      To many men among those packed densely on each side of the empty street wearing ribbons and badges on civil clothes,

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