This was a WWI poem. As in The Searchlights, Noyes believed the modernist radical nationalism (e.g. General Friedrich von Bernhardi) advocated by Germany in the first world war was a form of destructive nihilism that England must combat both within and without.
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This was a WWI poem. As in The Searchlights, Noyes believed the modernist radical nationalism (e.g. General Friedrich von Bernhardi) advocated by Germany in the first world war was a form of destructive nihilism that England must combat both within and without.