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HAMPSTEAD HEATH (Easter Monday, 1915) & 2014

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By middleway

Richard Aldington 1892 - 1915

HAMPSTEAD HEATH (Easter Monday, 1915)
Dark clouds, torn into gaps of livid sky,
Pierced through
By a swift searchlight, a long white dagger.

The black murmuring crowd Flows, eddies, stops, flows on
Between the lights

And the banks of noisy booths.

IMAGES-OLD AND NEW RICHARD ALDINGTON

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