A rare poem by Winston Churchill will be up for auction this spring. Churchill wrote the 40-line work "Modern Watchwords" at the turn of the century while serving as an army correspondent in India and Africa (exactly where and when the poem was written isn't known). The verse is handwritten in blue pencil on the letterhead of the 4th Hussars, Churchill's regiment at the time, and it stirringly describes the eve of a naval battle. Here's the opening stanza:
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