"I gave my life for freedom—This I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so."
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"Five Souls", Five Souls and Other Verses (1917)
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William Norman Ewer
William Norman Ewer CBE (22 October 1885 – 25 January 1977) was a British journalist, remembered mostly now for a few lines of verse. He was prominent as a writer on foreign affairs for the Daily Herald of London, and was accused of being a Soviet agent.
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