In Temple Gardens
By Christmas Humphrys
The War Illustrated, Volume 3, No. 65, Page 588, November 29, 1940.
One window left, for shuttered gloom
Lies fast on many a folded eye.
Yet still within my shadowed room
The trees, the flowers, the open sky
Lay healing hands upon a mind
Of quietude by war bereft,
Wherefore I toil content who find
One window left.
- The Times
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Neville Chamberlain: An Appreciation
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