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This is really lovely - aside from it sounding so good, I'd also never heard of the poem but you're dead right about how it's not dated.
Thank you! And well worth reading his Barrack Room Ballads if you get a chance - a whole book of that stuff. For To Admire is one of the most beautiful sentiments ever expressed, it sounds like an unsarcastic Decemberists.
I did a whole record of this if you're interested: https://open.spotify.com/album/7oT6A3hJLzeO5MCbwzDbRB
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This is really lovely - aside from it sounding so good, I'd also never heard of the poem but you're dead right about how it's not dated.