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The Great War in Verse and Prose

EPITAPHS FOR THE SLAIN

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(For a British graveyard in France)

When you go home, tell them of us and say: For your to-morrow, these gave their to-day.

(For those who fell in the first Battle of Ypres)

When Might in scornful millions came arrayed, Here a few English stood, and he was stayed.

(For a War Memorial)

These in the glorious morning of their days For England's sake lost all but England's praise.

(For a general grave on Vimy Ridge)

You come from England? Is she England still? Yes, thanks to you who died upon this hill. J. M. Edmonds in "The Times"

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