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The Common Room / Help with poem please!
« on: Tuesday 25 August 09 13:04 BST (UK) »
Can anybody identify this poem please. It was on an obituary of a soldier who had died leaving behind his beloved fiance
’Twas not to be, that dream of blissful rest.
That pictured harmony of peaceful years
Dearer to one who, leaving tented field,
Could to the full enjoy the sweets of home
The cry went forth “To arms”, and forth he went
In manly vigour, she, with women’s pride,
Kept back her tears content to feel that he
Would, fresh from new-won battles, claim her wife.
So ends the dreams, he died for Britain’s fame,
She weeping now, shall proudly down the years
Speak of her hero, as one called to rest
Enshrouded in the mists of mem’rys tears
Sleep well bold-hearted soldier, real and true,
Staunch in thy friendships, e’en to foemen kind.
Thy comrades mourn thee – and in silent grief
Condole with her whom God has left behind.
’Twas not to be, that dream of blissful rest.
That pictured harmony of peaceful years
Dearer to one who, leaving tented field,
Could to the full enjoy the sweets of home
The cry went forth “To arms”, and forth he went
In manly vigour, she, with women’s pride,
Kept back her tears content to feel that he
Would, fresh from new-won battles, claim her wife.
So ends the dreams, he died for Britain’s fame,
She weeping now, shall proudly down the years
Speak of her hero, as one called to rest
Enshrouded in the mists of mem’rys tears
Sleep well bold-hearted soldier, real and true,
Staunch in thy friendships, e’en to foemen kind.
Thy comrades mourn thee – and in silent grief
Condole with her whom God has left behind.