The Guards Came Through and Other Poems

A Parable

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A Parable

High-brow House was furnished well

With many a goblet fair;

So when they brought the Holy Grail,

There was never a space to spare.

Simple Cottage was clear and clean,

With room to store at will;

So there they laid the Holy Grail,

And there you'll find it still.

About Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Guards Came Through

Victrix

Those Others

Haig is Moving

The Guns in Sussex

Ypres

Grousing

The Volunteer

The Night Patrol

The Wreck on Loch McGarry

The Bigot

The Athabasca Trail

Ragtime!

Christmas in Wartime

Lindisfare

A Parable

Fate

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