Ivor Gurney's Poem 'The Volunteer' which includes quote from Walt Whitman's 'Passage to India'
This poem was written by Gurney in 1917 in a letter to Marion Scott of 29th August 1917. The quotation in stanza 5 is from the American poet Walt Whitman's 'Passage to India'. The poem was published in 'The Spectator' on 22nd February 1919. I
