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The Young Guard
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Who says their war is over? While others carry
on,
The little wooden crosses spell but the dead and
gone?
Not while they deck a sky-line, not while they
crown a view,
Or a living soldier sees them and sets his teeth
anew!
The tenants of the churchyard where the singing
thrushes build
Were not, perhaps, all paragons of promise well
fulfilled:
Some failed – through Love, or Liquor – while the
parish looked askance.
But – you cannot die a Failure if you win a Cross
in France!
The brightest gems of Valour in the Army's
diadem
Are the V.C. and the D.S.O., M.C. and D.C.M.
But those who live to wear them will tell you
they are dross
Beside the Final Honour of a simple Wooden
Cross.
notes
1
H. P. P. – F. M. J. W. A. C. St. Ninian's, Moffat, 1879-1880; South Africa, 1899-1900.
2
Præpostors.
on,
The little wooden crosses spell but the dead and
gone?
Not while they deck a sky-line, not while they
crown a view,
Or a living soldier sees them and sets his teeth
anew!
The tenants of the churchyard where the singing
thrushes build
Were not, perhaps, all paragons of promise well
fulfilled:
Some failed – through Love, or Liquor – while the
parish looked askance.
But – you cannot die a Failure if you win a Cross
in France!
The brightest gems of Valour in the Army's
diadem
Are the V.C. and the D.S.O., M.C. and D.C.M.
But those who live to wear them will tell you
they are dross
Beside the Final Honour of a simple Wooden
Cross.
notes
1
H. P. P. – F. M. J. W. A. C. St. Ninian's, Moffat, 1879-1880; South Africa, 1899-1900.
2
Præpostors.
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