Masefield (John, poet and writer, Poet Laureate from 1930, 1878-1967) To the Australians coming to help us, autograph poem, 1p., signed at foot, [1940]; Right Royal, number 460 of 500 copies signed by the author, map, book-label of Laurence Hodson, endpapers browned, original boards, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly soiled, 1920; Selected Poems, number 387 of 530 copies signed by the author, portrait, original boards, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed, 1922; and 8 others by Masefield, mostly first editions, some with signature of Laurence or Will Hodson, one inscribed to Will by Con (?Constance Masefield, "it is a blank Christmas in many ways for many of us"), and a few ephemeral items, 8vo (a bundle) ⁂ The poem was written by Masefield as Poet Laureate and concerns Australia's entry into the Second World War. It refers to the contribution by Australian soldiers at Anzac, Ypres and Pozières, "...Wherever Death was grimmest, you were there...Again you give your friendship: for the sake / Of fellow mortals wronged a world away...Advance, Australia; welcome, and God speed./ That Nation should help Nation in her need / Is sunlight to us in this winter day.". Masefield had served as a hospital orderly in France during the First World War and wrote a history of the Gallipoli campaign. With the poem is a cutting from the Melbourne newspaper The Age of 24th January 1940 quoting the poem.
Masefield (John, poet and writer, Poet Laureate from 1930, 1878-1967) To the Australians coming to help us, autograph poem, 1p., signed at foot, [1940]; Right Royal, number 460 of 500 copies signed by the author, map, book-label of Laurence Hodson, endpapers browned, original boards, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly soiled, 1920; Selected Poems, number 387 of 530 copies signed by the author, portrait, original boards, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed, 1922; and 8 others by Masefield, mostly first editions, some with signature of Laurence or Will Hodson, one inscribed to Will by Con (?Constance Masefield, "it is a blank Christmas in many ways for many of us"), and a few ephemeral items, 8vo (a bundle) ⁂ The poem was written by Masefield as Poet Laureate and concerns Australia's entry into the Second World War. It refers to the contribution by Australian soldiers at Anzac, Ypres and Pozières, "...Wherever Death was grimmest, you were there...Again you give your friendship: for the sake / Of fellow mortals wronged a world away...Advance, Australia; welcome, and God speed./ That Nation should help Nation in her need / Is sunlight to us in this winter day.". Masefield had served as a hospital orderly in France during the First World War and wrote a history of the Gallipoli campaign. With the poem is a cutting from the Melbourne newspaper The Age of 24th January 1940 quoting the poem.
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