THEY SHALL RETURN J. LEWIS MILLIGAN
Reading edition
in The Toronto Globe
THEY shall return when the wars are over, When battles are memories dim and far; Where guns now stand shall be corn and clover, Flowers shall bloom where the blood-drops are. They shall return with laughing faces, Limbs that are lithe and hearts new-born; Yea, we shall see them in old home-places, Lovelier yet in the light of morn.