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Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy was an English Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed "Woodbine Willie" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes to the soldiers he met, as well as spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. June 1883 – 8. March 1929
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Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Quotes

“God gave His children memory
That in life's garden there might be
June roses in December.”

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

Source: from Roses in December, in Songs of Faith and Doubt (1922) https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/roses-december

“Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears
Waste of youth's most precious years,
Waste of ways the saints have trod,
Waste of Glory, waste of God,
War!”

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

Source: from Waste, in More Rough Rhymes of a Padre (1919)

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