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‘When the Vision dies…’

May Wedderburn Cannan

When the Vision dies in the dust of the market place,
When the Light is dim,
When you lift up your eyes and cannot behold his face,
When your heart is far from him,

Know this is your war; in this loneliest hour you ride
Down the Roads he knew;
Though he comes no more at night he will kneel at your side,
For comfort to dream with you.


May Wedderburn Cannan

from The Splendid Days (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1919)

Reproduced by permission of the Estate of May Wedderburn Cannan

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May Wedderburn Cannan1893 - 1973

Through her poems of the time and later her autobiography, May Wedderburn Cannan was one of the voices of the generation overwhelmed by the First World War.
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