Excerpt from The Return: And Other Poems I have to acknowledge the courtesy of the Editors of The Times, The Fortnightly Review, The Poetry Review, The Windsor Magazine, The Blue Magazine also the Editors of The Book of France and The Book of the Homeless, in permitting me to include in this volume the various poems which have already appeared in their pages. The poem on the first battle of Ypres, as I have already stated in The Fortnightly Review, was not in any way suggested by the Angels of Mons fable, but by a private letter. The writer, a young man of high character and intelligence, was acting as interpreter at the time of the battle. He questioned a considerable number of prisoners as to the cause of the apparently ih explicable withdrawal of the Germans on three occasions. The reply was always the same, We dared not advance when we saw your immense reserves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.